Saturday, October 20, 2007

Manhattan welcomes 720,000 Ladybugs, as killers

Imagine this spectacle in the middle of Manhattan: 720,000 ladybugs from Montana, on the attack.

The red-and-black creatures have purposely been released into the greenery of one of New York's biggest apartment complexes _ a sprawling 40-acres of high rises on the East Side. These normally gentle ladybugs have a mission: to harm and destroy pests infesting the neatly landscaped property.

The bugs from Bozeman arrived at the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village complex Thursday afternoon, packed in boxes shipped by a natural gardening company.

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