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Crowdsourcing
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Experts feared that the nine-spotted ladybug, or ladybird as it is known in some countries, was becoming extinct. Then, in 2011, Peter Priolo, a volunteer ladybug hunter, one sitting on a sunflower in New York. The ladybug population had once been so in the state of New York that it was the 'official state insect', but the last sighting of one had been almost 30 years before. Priolo was thrilled. So was the Lost Ladybug Project, which studies different species of North American ladybugs with the assistance of ordinary people, a known as 'crowdsourcing'. One reason for the ladybug's decline may be that other imported insects have invaded its habitat and are eating its food. 'In future, crowdsourcing may help us stop this happening, says the project's director John Losey from Cornell University. Signing up ordinary citizens isn't new to science. Amateur astronomers, weather watchers, and other hobbyists going back to the 1700s have all a part in the development of science. What's different today is the internet, which has helped recruit hundreds of thousands of volunteers over the past decade or so.
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