Meet the Experts: Wizzie Brown, a senior program specialist in entomology at Texas A&M University; Gale Ridge, Ph.D., an associate scientist with the entomology department at Connecticut’s Agricultural Experiment Station; Dan Suiter, a University of Georgia Cooperative Extension entomologist; Johnalyn Gordon, Ph.D., assistant professor of urban entomology at the UF/IFAS Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center; David Lowenstein, Ph.D., a consumer horticulture extension educator at Michigan State University, et al What are ladybugs, again? “Make sure to empty the vacuum canister outside so the ladybugs don’t reemerge inside the home,” adds Brown.