Hidden Wings and Bloodlust

I walk around a nature reserve near my house and look for ladybirds. Apologies in advance for the poor sound quality, I didn't really edit this and recorded it on a phone :) 

Music by Debra Torrance. 

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For episode 50, I interviewed Professor Helen Roy who manages the UK Ladybird Survey. She is the author of several books including the Field Guide to the Ladybirds of the UK and Ireland and one of the most well-known ladybird experts in the world. She's also president of the Royal Entomological Society! 

Find out more here: https://www.ceh.ac.uk/staff/helen-roy or follow her on Twitter @UKLadybirds 

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All about the cream-spot ladybird. Does include a discussion of reproduction with some mildly strong language so take care while listening! 

Featuring a promo for the Wild Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-wild-episode/id1364093026

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Sources:

Field Guide to the Ladybirds of Britain and Ireland - Helen Roy 

Ladybirds of UK FB group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/971664196190955 for more on cream-spot behaviour 

https://bugguide.net/node/view/26792 - Polymorphic cream-spot ladybirds in the USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvia_Crispinilla 

For distribution in Channel Islands see irecord data on channel islands and Calvia quatuordecimguttata (www.irecord.org.uk) 

https://www.pherobase.com/database/species/species-Calvia-quatuordecimguttata.php

https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article/88/6/785/162813?login=true (Also shows that lower temperatures = bigger ladybirds). 

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/42503173/Chemical_protection_of_Calvia_quatuordec20160209-30509-1qhtj4f-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1650412784&Signature=AYhihYlKN4Dp5AUA51bV17b80GZ-6oyl0UzQYEjAt59NZy1tXE~Ax-Ocy-PZlC2pBKsJAXQkJn47250qu~qbjVl7XXYSGbRRm5IOEmh-b~SXa29wloRF-6xZcDqiihynzmb8nxdHM78mnJQSF~kTbsaiCQyps5HpYabJnrCTSf9mVJLX3vMeztRE~PwxWGcCoJDHQtv-ylcJEVCZOwpTVhvyNfy7CwQhXuPuMra0Bu03oFt0G86Z0E91LKRXgfaEEezYI52b29ruVTS9ulzHo0E5sFNGhuUFsisUaS9gpfixK1YT3A0yzqwj45PIT2RdXeI-hVsw84wPFq7WDa9McA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA - Alexandra Magro's study, 2007 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333761329_Niche_width_and_niche_specialization_in_four_species_of_ladybirds_Coleoptera_Coccinellidae_co-occurring_in_the_same_habitat - Polish study of 4 different ladybirds 

http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33024/ - Investigating ladybird alkaloids as new leads for novel insecticides 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/jeb.13074

https://doc.rero.ch/record/316061/files/10526_2012_Article_9470.pdf

https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/icad.12158

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2004.00769.x - Sexually transmitted mites info 

http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513378/1/N513378PP.pdf 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-016-1077-6 

http://earaza.ru/wp-content/uploads/20210505_zoo_eco_issues.pdf#page=177 - Russian study comparing clutch sizes on apples and pears 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jean-Francois-Godeau/publication/269100775_Identification_of_prey_items_in_frass_of_three_ladybird_beetles_living_on_black_alder/links/548051bc0cf2ccc7f8bb98f2/Identification-of-prey-items-in-frass-of-three-ladybird-beetles-living-on-black-alder.pdf 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0040402010001651 - Piperidines info 

I interview Mark Welfare from the Northeast Ladybird Spot, and Juliet Wilson and Per Smiseth from Cemetery Wildlife Watch about ladybirds in cemeteries. Around 35 minutes in, the zoom recording cut out, so apologies if it goes a bit weird around then! 

Visit Juliet's Etsy shop: https://craftygreenpoet.etsy.com 

Cemetery Wildlife Watch: https://www.facebook.com/groups/257026872679440 

UK Hoverflies facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/609272232450940 

Ladybirds of UK facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/971664196190955 

Find out more about the North East Ladybird Spot here: https://twitter.com/NEE_Naturalist 

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Find out about a little-known South African ladybird. Please note that the 'meandering black line' description was not mine but was said by one of the commenters on the posts I looked at for this episode. 

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107697606

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Have you ever wondered about ladybirds in Ukraine? Find out all about ladybirds in Ukrainian culture, how many types of ladybirds there are in Ukraine and more. 

Help Ukraine: 

Disasters Emergency Committee - https://www.dec.org.uk/ 

Ukrainian Institute - https://ukrainianinstitute.org.uk/russias-war-against-ukraine-what-can-you-do-to-support-ukraine-ukrainians/

Meduza.io podcasts: 

 Meduza.io - https://meduza.io/

https://meduza.io/en/podcasts/the-naked-pravda - The Naked Pravda on Meduza

https://meduza.io/podcasts/meduza-v-kurse - что случилось 

Ladybirds in Ukraine information 

https://hiddenwingsandbloodlust.podbean.com/e/%d1%81%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%b5%d1%87%d0%ba%d0%b0-%d0%b2-%d1%83%d0%ba%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%97%d0%bd%d1%96-%d0%bf%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%ba%d0%bb%d0%b0%d0%b4/ - Ukrainian Google translation of this episode 

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0 - Ukrainian wikipedia article on ladybirds 

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE_(%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0) - Wikipedia page about Ukrainian nursery rhymes and folk tales about ladybirds 

https://redbook-ua.org/ - Red Book of Ukraine about endangered species 

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/ladybird-beetles-of-ukraine - Ladybirds of Ukraine - Inaturalist project 

Alexander Slutsky's photo page in Kharkiv, Ukraine: http://www.alsphotopage.com/about/index 

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-can-inaturalist-community-do-for-our-fellow-naturalists-in-ukraine/29937 - Information about endemic species in Ukraine 

https://twitter.com/UK_CEH/status/1498622347959586817 - UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology statement on Ukraine 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/06/whats-the-environmental-impact-of-modern-war - 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306312715603249 - Leaf bugs near the Chernobyl site 

http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/search.php?search=adv&SearchContent=WebSearchName&SearchType=begins&txt_Search=&accepted=accepted&rankm=%3E%3D&rank=220&belongs=Coccinellidae+%7C+Family&list=0&listareas=2196&listareastatus=1&btn_SearchAdv=Search

http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/search.php?search=adv&SearchContent=WebSearchName&SearchType=begins&txt_Search=&accepted=accepted&rankm=%3E%3D&rank=220&belongs=Coccinellidae+%7C+Family&list=0&listareas=2196&listareastatus=8&btn_SearchAdv=Search - Pesi portal results 

https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/taxonomy?country=UA&taxon_key=7782&occurrence_status=present - Numbers of different ladybirds recorded in Ukraine with Harlequins recorded 715 times, 7-spots 516 times and 22-spots 92 times. 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322138730_Notes_on_three_morphs_of_Bulaea_lichatschovii_Hummel_Coleoptera_Coccinellidae_from_Northern_Pakistan

Ladybirds attack the beaches of Odessa and Kharkiv - https://nv.ua/ukraine/events/bozhi-korovki-atakuyut-plyazhi-mariupolya-i-odessy-prichiny-opasno-li-eto-foto-video-50170931.html 

https://newsfounded.com/ukraineeng/in-southern-ukraine-millions-of-dead-ladybirds/ 

https://www.facebook.com/hrabro.odessa/posts/1676788112531736

Ukraine's ladybug fan breaks her own world record - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fToOfxAigpc 

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-collection-of-ladybirds 

Thanks to @cabbageleek on twitter and matthewvosper on inaturalist plus everyone who helped me find the right information. 

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Learn about a ladybird that is one of the world's worst pests of soybeans. 

Podcast recommendation - Gardeners of the Galaxy (@orbitalgardens on Twitter)

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Photo by Stephen Ausmus, 21st March 2006 for Wikipedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Epilachna_varivestis_(cropped).jpg 

Sources:

https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19620501187

https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/veg/bean/mexican_bean_beetle.htm

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0098847288900469

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09583157.2013.809404

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925857419303842

Despite what it says in the intro this is episode 44. I talk to spider advocate Tea Francis about the relationship between ladybirds and spiders. We talk about the rare and beautiful Ladybird Spider, what spiders do with ladybirds in their webs, spiders which eat aphids, how to start keeping invertebrates and more! 

Follow Tea on Twitter @tea_francis

Follow her on Instagram @scienteafic 

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Steve Allain talks me through the changes to protection of endangered species and possible threats to their survival from proposed government legislation and changes to their status. Please note it says 'episode 44' in the intro because it's being released slightly out of order...

Record sightings with the irecord app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.ac.ceh.irecord

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/02/red-squirrels-and-pine-martens-could-lose-protection-in-uk-review-say-experts

Info about the changes from the ARG: https://www.arguk.org/get-involved/news/7th-quinquennial-review-qqr-of-schedules-5-and-8-of-the-wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-a-summary-by-arg-uk

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This week's episode is all about the twice-stabbed ladybug. Found in North America, this ladybird has interesting genetics and a weird lifestyle. Plus, hear an update with new information about the kidney spot! 

Podcast recommendation - The Wild Episode with Brian Ruckley. Follow https://twitter.com/WildEpisode or www.wildepisode.com :) 

Sources: 

Picture used in show notes by Parihav at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Picture can be found here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twicestabbed1.jpg 

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/6/368 - Rigorous Morphological Studies Confirm That the Classical Object of Pest Control Chilocorus kuwanae Is the Same Species as Ch. renipustulatus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

https://biocontrol.entomology.cornell.edu/predators/Chilocoruss.php 

https://www.scielo.br/j/gmb/a/dhbZYvwxrYCKKhnK3SmHJTs/abstract/?lang=en - Information on the XY chromosomes

https://www.nature.com/articles/1931210a0 - Polymorphic chromosomes

https://bugguide.net/node/view/817339 - Another similar ladybird :) 

https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/gtr/gtr_wo37/18_mayer_wo37.pdf - Chilocorus stigma and beech scale 

https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/beneficials/beneficial-16_twicestabbed_ladybug.htm 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16334330/ 

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VGQiB01pBeIC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=chilocorus+stigma+mussel+scale&source=bl&ots=XrXmUpe-Se&sig=ACfU3U02pJOEFxUgGz5r2UaebZWKk5m6UQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvhJXfve_xAhVNSsAKHR_SC1QQ6AEwCXoECAcQAw#v=onepage&q=chilocorus%20stigma%20mussel%20scale&f=false - Chapter from Ivo Hodek's book with info on low survival rates on Mussel Scale. 

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