Episode 29: Coccinella quinquepunctata - The 5-Spot Ladybird

Find out all about the 5-spot ladybird and its unusual habitat in Wales and Scotland. Thank you to Daryn Johnson for pronouncing the Welsh place-names! 

Sources: 

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

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/een.12847 - Geographic variation in the habitat preference of a scarce predatory insect...by Sloggett et al

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/endangered-ladybird-found-only-wales-1827527.amp

http://www.llanellinaturalists.org.uk/index.php/newsletters/dragonflies-and-damselfies/238-carmarthenshire-ladybirds

Michael Majerus - A natural history of ladybird beetles

Field guide to ladybirds by Roy et al (2017). 

 

https://www.alamy.com/five-spot-ladybird-fivespot-ladybird-5-spot-ladybird-coccinella-quinquepunctata-on-sand-image283979660.html - Alamy stock photo, contributor: blickwinkel

My podcast recommendation for this week is The Wildlife Garden Podcast - https://twitter.com/thewildgdn 

See Debra's article on the Scottish midge conspiracy here: http://leftungagged.org/2021/03/23/the-biggest-scottish-conspiracy-theory-of-them-all/ 

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