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When Nancy McLean had supper last week, she found herself surrounded by dozens of tiny, polka-dotted crawlers in her farmhouse in Nova Scotia’s Pictou County.  “It wasn’t too disturbing, but it was unusual because these lady beetles are only around and under certain types of conditions,” she said. The biology professor is not …

The City of Winnipeg is buzzing to take another swat at its Elm Bark Bettle Control Program, hopeful it will slow the spread of Dutch elm disease (DED). Weather permitting, the City said the decades-old program will start up again this Sunday in four Insect Management areas. Communities in these …