Two weeks after Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department employees released 18,000 ladybugs around town, the results are getting mixed reviews.
City officials released the bugs as a pest control measure in hopes of controlling a growing aphid population at the Union Pacific Depot, Buford Watson Jr. Park and flower beds along Massachusetts street.
But Crystal Miles, horticulture manager, said that it may still be too soon to tell how effective the ladybugs will be.
“In some areas we have seen improvements,” Miles said. “We are trying to give it another month to see if they will lay eggs and give off a second generation.”
Miles said that the goal of the project was not to eliminate the pests all together, but to bring the environment back to a “natural level.”
“We are trying to get a sustainable level of aphids,” Miles said.
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Source: Kansan.com
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