Miscellaneous
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 Buy me a coffee: https://www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast Follow me on Twitter: @hwabpodcast Follow me on Instagram: @365.ladybird Like my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenwingsandbloodlust Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/hidden-wings-and-bloodlust/id1476595771 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Oy8dnGCsXXejYRI1b7j8z Website: https://hiddenwingsandbloodlust.podbean.com Music by Debra Torrance :)