You may know ladybugs for their red and black spots. But did you know the "ladybug" is actually more than one type of insect? There are about 5,000 species in the Coccinellidae, or ladybug, family.

A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado. Sat, ...

SAN DIEGO — A swarm of ladybugs moving through southern California was so large it registered on the San Diego National Weather Service's (NWS) weather radar Tuesday night. The NWS office in San Diego ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Spotting lots of ladybugs coming out of cracks and holes in your home as the autumn chill settles in? These are not the seven-spotted ones that Tennessee adores. The beetles ...

Ladybugs are not just pretty little insects; they’re also great for plant life. The beetles eat insects such as aphids that attack plants and crops. On Friday, in honor of Earth Day weekend, the ...

Students at Chesterbrook Academy Preschool got a jump on Earth Day celebrations Friday with a ladybug launch at their Manheim Township school. Earth Day was Sunday, but students gathered a few days ...

If you think you are seeing more ladybugs in your home than in recent years, you are not entirely wrong. Little red bugs are invading homes in increased numbers this year thanks to northern New ...

What’s known as the ladybug in the United States is called the ladybird beetle in the U.K. or lady beetles elsewhere. Entomologists prefer those names because ladybugs are not “true” bugs, in the ...