>someone should check but I do believe the Japanese Ladybugs have >been introduced by the USDA in an attempt to counter the damage >being caused by certain insects that attack trees (I think the pine >borer).
It's true, as far as I know, that they were imported by someone in the USDA for some special application that they do not always apply themselves to. There is not point, however, in scooping these beauties up by the shoebox full for the greenhouse because they have not interest, that i know of, in aphids. -Allan
