There are several kinds of Lady Beetles, or Lady Bugs, and most species of Lady Bugs are considered to be beneficial, because they eat aphids, scale insects, caterpillars, and other insect larvae.
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Thousands upon thousands of bright pink and red strawberry anemones fill the underwater seascape, as clusters of giant, white cloud sponges protrude proudly off of the giant boulders that rest precariously upon a slope that wanders off into the abysmal depths.
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There have been a whole host of stories on the swine flu and the need to get vaccines. Most have been the "OHMYGOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" type stories. Let me tell what the flu is like, first hand.
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Always nice when the bad guys are coming in as being the nice frankenfood folks - apparently the show has come up with a plot where the killer comes from some corn that produces death.
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There will be no cost of living increase for more than 50 million Social Security recipients next year, the first year without a raise since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975.
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I've been thinking about this idea for awhile and I guess I just need to get it out, it seems timely. Our government is and has been for a number of years seemingly incapable of making the tough decisions.
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The difference is a Wall Street address! That's the only answer that seems to fit the facts. In researching another topic this item popped up and made me wonder. What qualifies an an enemy? Is it Bioterrorism or Business?
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My girlfriend kept asking me this morning what this news was about Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I have to admit I was completely stunned when I watched the newscasts covering this story.
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Several firms that received large taxpayer bailouts have adjusted executive compensation to trim cash payouts before the Obama administration's pay czar issues new rules. Some fear those rules will go too far, preventing them from attracting the talent they need to remain competitive.
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Fewer U.S. high schools and middle schools are selling candy and salty snacks to students, the federal government said in a report released Monday.
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In the last month, the amount of 'trolls' ,banned people returning under other names, and spammers who post comments on every article who aren't even intuitive enough to realize that 'Tyler' is not a user, but rather the moderator. (Yes, I'm calling you out.
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Spelling is not my best subject, but having Google as my default page today's double ll, Googlle logo jumped out immediately. It's their 11th Birthday and what a transformative decade plus it has been.
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Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.
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Months before a wildfire burned 280 square miles at the edge of Los Angeles, a little-known group was awarded a $178,000 grant to clear flammable brush and tree limbs to protect a mountain neighborhood in the Angeles National Forest.
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A new meme is under construction by the American right, the idea that so-called 'Tea Partiers' represent the views of the common U.S. citizen, fed up with what Alex Castellanos calls the "horrific tilt to the left" they see in government.
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Please note that you should not proceed beyond this point if you cannot read tongue in cheek. While there may be an Onionesque feel to the reporting, this strange situation is factual. Monsanto wants support.
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Filmmaker Michael Moore gave residents of his adopted Michigan community an early showing of his new documentary on Saturday and urged them to help overthrow an economic system he said was beyond redemption.
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The World is acutely threatened by man-made global warming. Older people are peculiarly threatened and must act by (a) informing others, (b) supporting 100% renewables and (c) boycotting climate criminal nations, people.
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Crossposted from Axis Of Logic The War of the Empire has many faces
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Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said. He was 95.
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Belief is an amazingly flexible thing. Just look at the stuff we see right here in this forum. Some people believe in God, others assert there is no God.
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Federal prosecutors hit Pfizer Inc. with a record-breaking $2.3 billion in fines Wednesday and called the world's largest drugmaker a repeating corporate cheat for illegal drug promotions that plied doctors with free golf, massages, and resort junkets.
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We have to be able to differentiate between chronic arguers and actual trolls.
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A gauge of future U.S. home sales rose more than expected in July to the highest level in over two years as first-time buyers rushed to take advantage of a tax credit that expires this fall.
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Beyond the insider network that weaves from the Senate Cloak Room, we will not miss Teddy's voice. Political content has grown like wildfire since September 11, 2001. An awful lot of National significance has transpired between that day and Teddy's last one.
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When a cat came down with flu-like symptoms -- malaise, loss of appetite -- its owners brought it to Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine for treatment.
President Eisenhower at the end of his second term gave a farewell address that is one for the ages in its wisdom. Many on the left love to quote him on the part about the dangers of the military industrial complex.
Brazil's president said that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest.
The Netherlands-based file-sharing website Mininova has removed all torrents that enabled users to download copyright-protected material.
The Commonwealth is tainted. More than a few of the leaders who will dine with the Queen this weekend at the Commonwealth nations summit in Trinidad and Tobago have blood on their hands. They abuse the human rights of their own citizens.
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