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All about the orange ladybird - one orange organism you will be glad to hear about in these bleak times.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/srep11021.pdf
https://www.academia.edu/download/90336212/latest.pdf
https://www.gnhs.org.uk/gn25_3/weddle_halyzia16.pdf
https://mahieu.org.uk/orange-ladybirds/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01647959508684050
Ladybird Atlas 2025: https://biodiversityireland.ie/surveys/ladybird-atlas-2025/
Wednesday Jul 10, 2024
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
I interview wildlife campaigner Richard Dowling (@DowlingWildlife on Twitter) about artificial grass. In this episode we talk about what the problems are with it, what the best low-maintenance plants are for your lawn as alternatives to grass, what to do if your landlord won't let you get rid of an artificial lawn and more!
With a promo for Crime Most French @CrimeMostFrench :)
Music by Debra Torrance.
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Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
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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Monday May 30, 2022
Monday May 30, 2022
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
Follow Imogen Cavadino's slug survey, mentioned in the episode here:
https://twitter.com/i_cavadino
Take part here: https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/help-our-research/slug
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Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
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
@WildEpisode on Twitter
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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://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.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0040402010001651 - Piperidines info
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
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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Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
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
https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/southern-africa/view/observation/699558/cheilomenes-bidentata-on-senecio-rigidus
https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/southern-africa/view/observation/333066/lipstick-ladybeetle
https://www.arc.agric.za/arc-ppri/Newsletter%20Library/SANSA%20News,%20No%2026,%20June-August%202016.pdf
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/76922377
If you like this show and want to support me you can buy me a coffee on Ko-Fi – www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast. You can follow me on Twitter @hwabpodcast or on Instagram @365.ladybird, or like my facebook page Hidden Wings and Bloodlust. You can follow me on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Music is by Debra Torrance.
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
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
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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Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
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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Music by Debra Torrance :)
Photo by Stephen Ausmus, 21st March 2006 for Wikipedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Epilachna_varivestis_(cropped).jpg
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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