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Ladybugs Invade New York
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by Jordan Yerman | October 21, 2007 at 10:29 am
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Somebody's painting the town red, and then adding black polka-dots... after giant lizards, giant apes, Muppets, and CHUDs, it was only a matter of time.
In a bid to stem an aphid invasion of NYC wtihout resorting to toxic pesticides, Stuyvestant Town (aka "Stuy Town", formerly a housing complex for returning veterans of WWII and now a renovated series of rental apartment blocks) has brought in hundreds of thousands of ladybugs.
The
ladybirds, from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in the western
United States, will eat pests on the newly-landscaped Manhattan
property.The bugs can eat 50 aphids a day, and will lay more larvae in due course.
"They'll do their thing out there!" said Eric Vinje, whose company Planet Natural supplied the ladybirds.
The ladybirds, Hippodamia convergens, were scattered across the
grounds of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village on Manhattan's
Lower East Side as an alternative to using chemical pesticides.
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at 07:43 on October 24th, 2007
jordan, a good way of naturally killing the bugs. But how do they get rid of the predators after they have devoured their prey.Good stuff.