Despite what it says in the intro this is episode 44. I talk to spider advocate Tea Francis about the relationship between ladybirds and spiders. We talk about the rare and beautiful Ladybird Spider, what spiders do with ladybirds in their webs, spiders which eat aphids, how to start keeping invertebrates and more!  Follow Tea on Twitter @tea_francis Follow her on Instagram @scienteafic  Sign up to her Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/scienteafic  === Buy me a coffee at Ko-Fi: https://www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast Follow me on Twitter @HWABpodcast  Follow me on Instagram @365.ladybird  Like my facebook page www.facebook.com/hiddenwingsandbloodlust   

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Episode 44: Ladybirds and Spiders with Tea Francis

Steve Allain talks me through the changes to protection of endangered species and possible threats to their survival from proposed government legislation and changes to their status. Please note it says 'episode 44' in the intro because it's being released slightly out of order... Record sightings with the irecord app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.ac.ceh.irecord https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/02/red-squirrels-and-pine-martens-could-lose-protection-in-uk-review-say-experts Info about the changes from the ARG: https://www.arguk.org/get-involved/news/7th-quinquennial-review-qqr-of-schedules-5-and-8-of-the-wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-a-summary-by-arg-uk Follow @stevoallain on Twitter  Support me on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast   Follow me on Twitter @HWABPodcast Follow me on Instagram @365.ladybird  Like my facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/hiddenwingsandbloodlust  Wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.podfollow.com/hidden-wings-and-bloodlust  Music by Debra Torrance :) 

Episode 43: Threats to endangered species with Steve Allain

This week's episode is all about the twice-stabbed ladybug. Found in North America, this ladybird has interesting genetics and a weird lifestyle. Plus, hear an update with new information about the kidney spot!  Podcast recommendation - The Wild Episode with Brian Ruckley. Follow https://twitter.com/WildEpisode or www.wildepisode.com :)  Sources:  Picture used in show notes by Parihav at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Picture can be found here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twicestabbed1.jpg  https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/6/368 - Rigorous Morphological Studies Confirm That the Classical Object of Pest Control Chilocorus kuwanae Is the Same Species as Ch. renipustulatus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) https://biocontrol.entomology.cornell.edu/predators/Chilocoruss.php  https://www.scielo.br/j/gmb/a/dhbZYvwxrYCKKhnK3SmHJTs/abstract/?lang=en - Information on the XY chromosomes https://www.nature.com/articles/1931210a0 - Polymorphic chromosomes https://bugguide.net/node/view/817339 - Another similar ladybird :)  https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/gtr/gtr_wo37/18_mayer_wo37.pdf - Chilocorus stigma and beech scale  https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/beneficials/beneficial-16_twicestabbed_ladybug.htm  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16334330/  https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VGQiB01pBeIC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=chilocorus+stigma+mussel+scale&source=bl&ots=XrXmUpe-Se&sig=ACfU3U02pJOEFxUgGz5r2UaebZWKk5m6UQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvhJXfve_xAhVNSsAKHR_SC1QQ6AEwCXoECAcQAw#v=onepage&q=chilocorus%20stigma%20mussel%20scale&f=false - Chapter from Ivo Hodek's book with info on low survival rates on Mussel Scale.  Buy me a coffee at Ko-Fi: 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  Wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.podfollow.com/hidden-wings-and-bloodlust  Music by Debra Torrance :) 

Episode 42: Chilocorus stigma - The Twice-Stabbed Ladybug

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  Follow @TalkAgToMe on twitter  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  Buy me a coffee at Ko-Fi: 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 Website: https://hiddenwingsandbloodlust.podbean.com  Find your podcast app at https://www.podfollow.com/hidden-wings-and-bloodlust  Music at the start of the show by Debra Torrance :)   

Episode 41: Propylea quattuordecimpunctata - The 14-Spot Ladybird

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. 

Episode 40: 1976 Part 2 - Memories of 1976 with CJ Romer

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 :)   

Episode 39: What happened in 1976? Part 1.

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:  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 -------------------- Podcast promo for this week - Nature Newbies with Anna Feeney. https://naturenewbies.podbean.com/  Like my facebook page: https://facebook.com/hiddenwingsandbloodlust Follow me on Twitter @Hwabpodcast  Follow me on Instagram @365.ladybird  Buy me a coffee at Ko-Fi : www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast  Music by Debra Torrance :) 

Episode 38: Cheilomenes sexmaculata - The 6-Spotted Zigzag Ladybird

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 ________________________________ Follow me on Twitter: @hwabpodcast Follow me on Instagram: @365.ladybird Buy me a coffee at Ko-Fi: https://www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Visit my website at https://hiddenwingsandbloodlust.podbean.com  Music by Debra Torrance :) 

Episode 37: Ladybirds and Ants

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.   View the museum's website here: https://www.palestinenature.org  Follow the museum on Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/PIBS.PMNH/ Buy Mazin's books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mazin-B-Qumsiyeh/e/B001KMCXP2/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1  Buy me a coffee at Ko-Fi: https://www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast Follow me on twitter: @HWABpodcast or Instagram @365.ladybird  Like my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenwingsandbloodlust Get redirected to the right podcast app here: https://podfollow.com/hidden-wings-and-bloodlust   

Episode 36: Ladybirds in Palestine with Mohammad Najajrah and Mazin Qumsiyeh

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.    Buy me a coffee at Ko-fi: https://www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast Follow me on twitter @hwabpodcast or instagram at @365.ladybird  Like my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenwingsandbloodlust Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/hidden-wings-and-bloodlust/id1476595771  Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2hpZGRlbndpbmdzYW5kYmxvb2RsdXN0L2ZlZWQueG1s?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwjY2JrD6eDwAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ&hl=en-GB  Music by Debra Torrance  

Episode 35: Oenopia shirkuhensis

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  ----------------------- Follow me on Twitter: @HWABpodcast Like my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenwingsandbloodlust Follow me on Instagram: @365.ladybird  Buy me a coffee at Ko-Fi: https://www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.  Music at the start of the show is by Debra Torrance :) 

Episode 34: Halmus chalybeus - The SteelBlue Ladybird

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 . You can follow her on Twitter at @LBFlyawayhome.  Details about the exhibition - The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists: https://ladybirdflyawayhome.com/the-ladybird-artists-exhibition/  Buy me a coffee at Ko-Fi: https://www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast Like my facebook page www.facebook.com/hiddenwingsandbloodlust Follow me on twitter @HWABpodcast Follow me on instagram @365.ladybird Music by Debra Torrance.   

Episode 33: Ladybird Books ... Interview with Helen Day

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 Follow Ryan Dalton's podcast at @IntoTheWildPod Follow CritterCast at @CastCritter or https://crittercast.blubrry.com :)  Buy me a coffee at Ko-Fi: https://www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast  Like my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenwingsandbloodlust Follow me on twitter @hwabpodcast or on instagram @365.ladybird  Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.  Music is by Debra Torrance :) 

Episode 32: Coccinella undecimpunctata - The 11-Spot Ladybird

Learn about the tiny inconspicuous ladybird Scymnus interruptus! With a recommendation for Grubbing in the Filth podcast. Take a look at @gtifpodcast on Twitter or wherever you get your podcasts.  Look out for CritterCast's episode next week! Check them out at @CastCritter on Twitter, https://crittercastpodcast.blubrry.net or wherever you get your podcasts. Sources:  Field guide to the Ladybirds of Britain and Ireland by Helen Roy et al.  https://www.andrewjewels.com/scymnus-interruptus  http://coleonet.de/coleo/texte/scymnus.htm https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00333941  https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/2002/nrs_2002_lu_001.pdf  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/eea.12691  https://academic.oup.com/ee/article-abstract/39/4/1309/449517    Buy me a coffee at Ko-Fi - https://www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast Follow me on Twitter: @hwabpodcast or Instagram @365.ladybird Like my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenwingsandbloodlust Music by Debra Torrance  

Episode 31: Scymnus interruptus - The Red-Flanked Scymnus Ladybird

This week, learn about the Giant Bamboo Ladybird, one of the biggest ladybirds in the world - and some of the fiercest aphids in the world, living in South East Asian bamboo forests. With a promo for the RedHanded podcast.  Sources:  https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrJS9S2J3ZgE2YAZjYM34lQ;_ylu=Y29sbwNpcjIEcG9zAzQEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1618384950/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.academia.edu%2f39496043%2fFunctional_Morphology_and_Defensive_Behavior_in_a_Social_Aphid/RK=2/RS=um7r39wXEt_TeHlG_Xa8Wy6zkcE- http://www.zgswfz.com.cn/EN/abstract/abstract735.shtml  https://natureandlearn.com/13-star-golden-ladybird-beetle-synonycha-grandis-clear-education-insect-specimen/  https://www.angelfire.com/bug2/j_poorani/ladybirds.htm https://esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1007/BF02763464 https://phys.org/news/2019-04-aphid-soldiers-sacrifice-colony-predators.html  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268629487_Observations_on_Pseudoregma_alexanderi_Homoptera_Pemphigidae_an_aphid_species_producing_pseudoscorpion-like_soldiers_on_bamboos https://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTotal-GXNB198801006.htm  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-14133-6_6 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/883B924FAAADE7E464B6D1901D243F2A/S1074070817000244a.pdf/economic_impact_of_the_sugarcane_aphid_outbreak_in_south_texas.pdf  https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/chinas-appetite-bamboo-damaging-forests  A Natural History of Ladybird Beetles - Majerus et al https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/22635107 ----------------- Picture by user Yercaud-elango on wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beetle-17-yercaud-salem-India.JPG  Buy me a coffee at Ko-fi https://www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast Like my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/hiddenwingsandbloodlust Follow me on twitter @HWABpodcast Follow me on instagram @365.ladybird :)  Music by Debra Torrance. 

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