The Mall of America has released 72,000 lady bugs inside. The reason they did this was to kill off the insect, aphids, that are killing all of the plants inside. The plants inside are natural air purifies for the mall. The mall has apparently done this before, but not in this large amount. The customers seem to not mind them, because they mainly stay on the plants, but when the get into your food, they are a little bit ticked off.
The Mall of America is so big that it can fit 7 Yankee Stadiums inside of it. It has 1.2 miles of skylights to give it natural sunlight and heat. Apparently, the Mall also converts all of the restaurants' fryer fat into bio diesel for the security vehicles, but it's kind of hard to believe that.
In the article it goes on about how the ladybug (Ladybird) population has been changing and all because of the climate change and the land-use patterns. It also talks about ladybugs are a biological defense system in the environment because it helps eat/fight off icky pests.
Yeah, this is all a little weird, but I think people would just be more accepting of getting dirt on their shoe from transplanting, that a ladybug flying into your milk shake. I already knew that ladybugs were a natural defense, but I didn't know that they fight off what ever this aphids. I wonder how those stupid little things got in there anyway.
http://news.yahoo.com/72-000-ladybugs-released-mall-america-193856307.html
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