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Nature Just Dropped a New Ladybug and It’s a Banger

Nature just dropped a new ladybug species and scientists are absolutely buzzing about it because this tiny beetle was hiding in plain sight the entire time on a university campus in Japan. The mini insect named the pine dweller ladybug is just over one millimeter long which is smaller than the tip of a pencil eraser, and it was spotted living on a pine tree right on the grounds of Kyushu University proving that sometimes the coolest discoveries happen right in your own backyard. The last time a new ladybug species was officially discovered was back in 2022 when researchers found the Haizhu micro ladybug, making this latest find pretty exciting since that’s only a four year gap and many insect species can go decades between discoveries depending on the region and how much research is happening.

Professor Munetoshi Maruyama who led the study explained that these tiny insects actually support our ecosystems even though people rarely notice such small creatures, adding that even in a city or on a university campus there are unknown species living right beside us just waiting to be found. The research team spent three years examining a whopping 1,700 beetle specimens to update Japan’s records which hadn’t been refreshed in over 50 years, and during that massive review they not only discovered the pine dweller but also found a second new species from northern Japan. One researcher noted that insect collectors normally don’t pay much attention to pine trees which is probably why scientists overlooked this species for so long, but the discovery serves as a reminder that nature still has plenty of surprises left and you don’t always need to travel to remote jungles to find them when sometimes they’re literally growing on trees right where you work.

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-discover-ladybug-species-japan-university-campus-pine-tree-11453410

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