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.

LITTLE ROCK — The ladybug is the world's most adorable insect, winning a contest of few entrants, writes Ron Wolfe in Saturday's HomeStyle section The gnat, frankly, never had a chance. The stink bug ...

Learn effective methods to keep both beneficial ladybugs and invasive Asian lady beetles outside where they belong.

The ladybug that slipped into your home to stay warm for winter is no lady and no bug. Instead, it is likely the multicolored Asian lady beetle. The small, roundish insect with black spots is often ...

BISMARCK - North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple today signed House Bill 1219 into law. It designates the Convergent Lady Beetle, commonly known as the ladybug, as the official state insect. The Governor ...

(UPI) -- Record numbers of ladybugs are swarming swaths of the South. The multi-colored Asian Lady Beetles usually surface around this time of year -- just after the first cold snap -- but weather ...

“A sure way to distinguish between an Asian lady beetle and a ladybug is to look at the spot where the head meets the wings.

Way back in the 1960s and '70s, the nine-spotted ladybug was the most common ladybug in the northeastern US. So beloved was this particular ladybug that it was designated as the official state insect ...

BISMARCK - A group of North Dakota second-graders will go all out next week in their effort to convince state lawmakers to make the ladybug the state insect. Kenmare teacher Tamara McNeiley will bring ...