On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Christy Anderson wrote:

> concerned that populations of native lady beetles might be impacted by
> people releasing lady beetles in their gardens that had been imported from
> Europe and Asia. I was stunned. Here we are thinking we are doing a good,
> organic thing, and it still may have an impact an local "wildlife"!
>

It can't be legal to import bugs from anywhere, can it?? If it isn't
illegal, it ought to be.

Bob Mauritsen
rhm at ms.washington.edu