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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