SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) -- When is a stroll through the backyard a real mission for science? A research project underway across North America has enlisted people around the Bay Area as "citizen ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - The rare nine-spotted ladybug, subject of a nationwide citizen science project launched after it appeared the insect had gone extinct, has been found in New York state for the first ...

Big batches of black-speckled beetles - species native to North America - have bugged out, flown away, or died off. Once common, several species of the hard-shelled insects with delicate wings are ...

The lost Ladybug project is a citizen science that relies on the public to scout for native ladybugs, such as the nine spotted received in Ellicottville. Volunteers across the country look for ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- -- ITHACA, N.Y. -- The nine-spotted ladybug was considered so common, charismatic and crop-friendly that it was adopted in 1989 as New York's official state insect. As it turns out, ...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find ladybugs! About 20 years ago, researchers realized that the nine-spotted ladybug had not been seen for a while in New York state, where they ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Scientists have launched a nationwide project to help them understand why some ladybug species have all but vanished while others have greatly increased their numbers and range, and ...