Manhattan welcomes 720,000 Montana ladybugs

VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press Writer NEW YORK

It sounds like a horror movie: 720,000 ladybugs on t h e a t tack i n Manhattan. In this real life story, however, the red-and-black bugs have been unleashed on the 80-acre grounds of one of New York's biggest apartment complexes with a mission: eat pests infesting the neatly landscaped property. The ladybugs from Bozeman, Mont., arrived at the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village complex on Manhattan's East Side on Thursday afternoon, packed in boxes shipped by a natural gardening company. From mesh bags filled with wood shavings, groundskeep...