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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although ladybug populations are thought to be declining due to issues like habitat loss, climate change and insecticide use, ...

The nine-spotted ladybug was considered so common, charismatic and crop-friendly that it was adopted as New York's official state insect in 1989. As it turns out, the species may have disappeared from ...

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 ...

If you live in the U.S. or Europe and ladybugs lurked inside your house last winter, loitering on your windowsills or walls through the cold season, they were probably members of an invasive species ...