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...marketing monster called Earth Day lumbers toward April 22, hapless journalists in its path are desperately dodging a barrage of press kits, news ( releases and alerts. Thousands of Earth Day happenings, from ladybug releases and the building of garbage monuments to corporate "We love the environment too" advertising campaigns, have become an undifferentiated blur as everyone tries to wave the green flag at once. Nobody is against Earth Day, but the very breadth of this looming mega-event raises the question: What's the point...
...Ladybug liberation. In recognition of the danger that burst rubber balloons pose to birds and the environment, schoolchildren in Solano County, Calif., will celebrate by releasing, instead of balloons, 300,000 colorful ladybugs...
...never know how many peoples be there tomorrow!" noticed Vicenzo. His voice was hoarse from chant rehearsal that afternoon. Lori, who was the rowdiest and was just sincere enough to make the rest of us a little uneasy, suggested we burn our I.D.s instead. She looked like a ladybug, the puckish girl sitting on Pater Noster's polished knee, spotted with buttons and stickers from past years. "Some of you younger kids don't know what effect that kind of statement can have. Very heavy." Too heavy, we all agreed...
Eric Carle's bright, elemental The Grouchy Ladybug (Crowell; $6.95) is about a mite spoiling for a fight. But every opponent has a stinger, a scent or a size that is superior. Carle has designed the book to fit the tale: as the heroine meets larger animals, the pages grow in size. None of the confrontations manage to sweeten the insect's disposition. That transformation is accomplished by powers that neither ladybug nor reader can resist: hunger and exhaustion...
...also useful to man and important to agriculture. Nectar-sucking insects, especially bees, pollinate flowering plants, and bees are the source of the honey that sugar-loving humans consume in great quantities each year. Other insects are also considered beneficial. The attractive red and black ladybird beetle, or ladybug, celebrated in the nursery rhyme, eats aphids and other small insects?to the gardener's delight. Before the development of dyes made from coal-tar derivatives, a scale insect provided the world with red dye; other species of scale insects are still used in the manufacture of shellac. The flesh-eating...