Hidden Wings and Bloodlust

Find out about a ladybird with square spots that can be said to resemble a clown face, a football, an emoji, an anchor and more! 

This week's podcast recommendation is @PodcastSpecies - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8zYTg2YzFmMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== 

Talk Ag To Me episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ladybird-lady-talk-ag-to-me-ft-rachael-from-hidden/id1481265957?i=1000528087613 

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Arabic transcription of Episode 36 (Ladybirds in Palestine) now on Opinya Times! https://www.opinyatimes.com/%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%ad%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a9-%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%b5%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%b4%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%81%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%b7%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%a5%d8%b9%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85/?fbclid=IwAR0uqJdG1Bw7h-xv_HmL8zk3CWt4kSF1_DbvlH-xwHnnyC-xpBiUtJSlFFY 

Sources: 

https://www.britannica.com/technology/propylaeum 

https://www.ukbeetles.co.uk/propylea - More info on diet and lifestyle :) 

https://www.eje.cz/pdfs/eje/2005/03/17.pdf - Life expectancy and fertility with 6 species of aphid 

https://www.eje.cz/pdfs/eje/2008/03/09.pdf 

https://www.academia.edu/download/39067810/final_Phototactic_Effects_of_Light_Emitting_Diodes_LEDs.pdf 

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I talk to paranormal investigator CJ Romer about his memories of 1976, the year when 23 billion ladybirds invaded the UK. We have a fun conversation about his recollection of the ladybird invasion, the sensationalism of the media, how to communicate with a ghostly ladybird and more! 

You can read more about CJ's work at ASSAP, the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena here: http://www.assap.ac.uk/ 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35603972#:~:text=The%20hot%20summer%20of%201976,reporting%20being%20bitten%20by%20them.&text=The%20British%20Entomological%20and%20Natural,of%20England%20by%20late%20July. 

You might have heard about the ladybird invasion of 1976. In Part 1 of this special 2-part episode, I talk about what happened in that famous year and talk about possible scientific explanations of what might have happened, as well as the impact on the society and community. 

Podcast recommendation this week is Ungagged! Please check out our film club discussion here: http://leftungagged.org/2021/06/28/film-club-pride-2014/ 

Sources: 

Newspaper articles from the Mirror, the Birkenhead News, the Sun and other local and national newspapers, kindly uploaded by Christian Jensen Romer. 

https://www.countryfile.com/countryfile/great-drought-of-1976-what-happened-and-what-was-the-impact-on-britain/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/may/17/water.ethicalliving 

https://www.lep.co.uk/news/do-you-remember-ladybird-plague-1976-why-britains-latest-heatwave-hasnt-caused-another-plague-45908 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35603972 

https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/219043/re-ladybird-swarm-1976.html 

https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/ladybird-invasion-swarms-uk-population-explosion-season-181142 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0006320778900022

https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2017/research/1976-drought-butterflies-moths/#:~:text=Scientists%20at%20the%20University%20of,swarming%20in%20search%20of%20food. 

http://lostladybug.org/file_uploads/WashupEntAmericana.pdf 

https://eje.cz/pdfs/eje/1993/04/04.pdf - Ivo Hodek's study

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0082278 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dan-Minchin/publication/274475587_A_swarm_of_the_seven-spot_ladybird_Coccinella_septempunctata_Coleoptera_Coccinellidae_carried_on_a_cruise_ship/links/595caa7eaca272f3c08f510e/A-swarm-of-the-seven-spot-ladybird-Coccinella-septempunctata-Coleoptera-Coccinellidae-carried-on-a-cruise-ship.pdf - Hibernating 7-spots on a Moroccan cruise ship :) 

http://la.climatologie.free.fr/secheresse/drought-heat_wave1.htm - Drought in France

https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/les-coccinelles-envahissent-le-littoral-larmor-plage-27639

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002017907790035X

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Discover the world of the 6-spotted zigzag ladybird, a commonly found ladybird in India and the Pacific. 

Picture used on the episode artwork by Renju from Kerala, India (user: Renjusplace on wikipedia) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheilomenes_sexmaculata,_ladybird_10.jpg

Sources: 

http://indianladybirds.myspecies.info/gallery

https://www.angelfire.com/bug2/j_poorani/

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9780429061400-14/coccinellidae-indian-subcontinent-poorani

https://foodandscientificreports.com/assets/uploads/issues/1585768721six_spotted_zigzag_ladybird_beetle.pdf

https://jpp.um.ac.ir/article/view/50296/article_36723.html?lang=en

https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1409806002

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3c16/014a12c1ca2f652f3f522bf7cd9481081204.pdf

https://www.entomoljournal.com/archives/2016/vol4issue5/PartH/4-5-41-780.pdf

https://www.academia.edu/14764698/Cheilomenes_Sexmaculata_The_Six_Spotted_Zigzag_Ladybird_Beetle

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317257411_Protogyny_after_hibernation_and_aestivation_in_Cheilomenes_sexmaculata_Coleoptera_Coccinellidae_in_central_Japan

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A deep dive into the relationships between ladybirds and ants. With a podcast recommendation for Just Plain Wrong - @plainwrongpod on Twitter. 

My apologies for the muffled audio quality on this episode - in the first version it sounded very uneven. 

Sources: 

https://billsbirding.blogspot.com/2014/06/scarce-7-spot-ladybird.html

Evolutionary Perspectives on Myrmecophily in Ladybirds: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/2012/591570/ 

https://www.jungledragon.com/image/110769/globe_marked_lady_beetles_azya_orbigera.html - Globe Marked ladybeetles 

https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/southern-africa/view/project/645756/indigenous-ladybird-species-distribution-in-south-africa-coccinellidae/observations - Photo of the blue-eyed ant munching lady beetle 

Field Guide to the Ladybirds of Great Britain and Ireland

Spotlight Ladybirds by Richard Comont

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331072095_High_parasitization_of_a_rare_ladybird_Platynaspis_luteorubra_-_a_reason_of_its_rarity - High parasitisation of Platynaspis luteorubra 

A Natural History of Ladybird Beetles by Michael Majerus et al

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40863799

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10905-008-9163-y 

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/ants/black-garden-ant 

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/ants/yellow-meadow-ant

https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/ants/Myrmica_ruba.htm 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4221364?seq=1 - Waxy coatings on Scymnus ladybirds. 

https://thecreative.cafe/the-fable-of-the-ant-and-the-ladybug-31115946df22?gi=a382b2df1244#:~:text=The%20Fable%20of%20the%20Ant%20and%20the%20Ladybug.,at%20all.%20In%20fact%2C%20it%20was%20a%20ladybug%21 - The fable of the ant and the ladybug 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/large-blue/id1334821500?i=1000519771414 - Species Podcast episode on the Large Blue butterfly

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In 2019 Mohammad Najajrah and Mazin Qumsiyeh from the Palestine Museum of Natural History, at the University of Bethlehem, carried out the first ever study of ladybirds in the West Bank. They found 35 species. In this episode, I talked to them about their work, how the Israeli occupation is affecting nature and the environment in Palestine, how ladybirds are viewed in Palestinian culture and more. 

You can read the study here: https://www.palestinenature.org/fr/research/Najajrahet-al-2019.pdf 

https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol23-1/an-environmental-nakba-the-palestinian-environment-under-israeli-colonization/ - Mazin's article on the environmental effects of Israeli policies. 

https://smujo.id/biodiv/article/view/3587 - Article about birds in Gaza by Abdel Fattah Abd Rabou. 

https://www.dw.com/en/70-years-of-nakba-the-ongoing-struggle-of-palestinian-refugees/a-43798899 - More about the Nakba and interviews with survivors.  

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Learn about a newly discovered ladybird from the Shirkuh mountain range in Iran, only confirmed as a new species in 2020. 

Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of a ladybird's genitalia. 

Listen to the UK Wildlife Podcast's latest episode here: http://www.uk-wildlife.co.uk/ep50-9-wildlife-podcasters-in-1-podcast/ 

Out for a walk podcast: https://www.outforawalk.uk/ or @outforawalkpod

Massive thank you to Mehdi Zare Khormizi for all the help he gave me on this episode. You can follow him on @ladybugs.ir. 

Picture by Alexander Slutsky:  http://www.alsphotopage.com/gallery/index/id/15304

You can view more of his pictures here: http://www.alsphotopage.com/gallery/index/id/6312/list/latestcom 

Sources: 

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

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

https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/46390/ - Oenopia shirkuhensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from Iran mimicking Adalia bipunctata. 

https://researchoutreach.org/articles/scientists-join-dots-between-lady-beetles-iran/ 

https://bioone.org/journals/the-coleopterists-bulletin/volume-74/issue-1/0010-065X-74.1.161/Potential-M%c3%bcllerian-Mimicry-between-Adalia-bipunctata-Linnaeus-and-Oenopia-conglobata/10.1649/0010-065X-74.1.161.short#:~:text=Zakharov%20and%20Shaikevich%20provided%20molecular%20genetic%20evidence%20that,form%20fasciatopunctata%20occurs%20in%20Kazakhstan%2C%20Siberia%2C%20and%20Mongolia. - Unusual two-spots in the orchards. 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mehdi-Zare-Khormizi - Mehdi's research page. 

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Learn about a metallic blue ladybird native to Australia. 

Plus, coming up is the UK Wildlife Podcast's 50th episode - stay tuned for the link! 

The picture is by user Raewyn on Wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steelblue_Ladybird_(Halmus_chalybeus)_on_leaf.jpg 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/37999014@N00/2945548428/

Sources: 

https://nzacfactsheets.landcareresearch.co.nz/factsheet/InterestingInsects/Steelblue-ladybird---Halmus-chalybeus.html#:~:text=It%20is%20found%20on%20trees,North%20of%20the%20South%20Island. 

https://nzacfactsheets.landcareresearch.co.nz/Browse.html 

https://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_ladybirds/Steelblue.htm 

https://www.homestolove.com.au/good-bug-steelblue-ladybird-9821 

https://www.ento.csiro.au/biology/ladybirds/lucid/key/lucidKey/Media/Html/halmuChalybeus1.htm 

http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/european-greenfinch 

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Helen Day who runs the website Ladybird Fly Away Home, dedicated to vintage Ladybird Books, talks to me about the history of the company, the artists involved, the topics covered, the most popular series and much more. 

You can find Helen's website at http://www.ladybirdflyawayhome.com or find her facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/121640071180835 .

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Details about the exhibition - The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists: https://ladybirdflyawayhome.com/the-ladybird-artists-exhibition/ 

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Find out about the ladybird behind Ladybird Books - the 11-spot ladybird. With a promo for CritterCast podcast. Also please check out Ryan Dalton's Into the Wild :) 

Correction: The two white dots are on the ladybird's head not the pronotum. 

Sources: 

Spotlight Ladybirds by Richard Comont

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

https://nzacfactsheets.landcareresearch.co.nz/factsheet/InterestingInsects/Eleven-spotted-ladybird---Coccinella-undecimpunctata.html 

https://influentialpoints.com/biocontrol/Coccinella_undecimpunctata_eleven-spot_ladybird.htm

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03235400903024712 

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1058.8087&rep=rep1&type=pdf 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio-Soares-22/publication/234035763_Intraguild_predation_between_the_aphidophagous_ladybird_beetles_Harmonia_axyridis_and_Coccinella_undecimpunctata_Coleoptera_Coccinellidae_The_role_of_body_weight/links/58c6731d92851c0ccbff533f/Intraguild-predation-between-the-aphidophagous-ladybird-beetles-Harmonia-axyridis-and-Coccinella-undecimpunctata-Coleoptera-Coccinellidae-The-role-of-body-weight.pdf

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