Episode 23: Listeners' Questions
01/19/21 • 26 min
Listener's questions are out! Find out why you might not be able to smell a ladybird, why ladybirds snuggle together in the winter, how they are affected by global warming and more.
With a promo for How to Enjoy Experimental Film with Daniel Adams, available on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.
Sources:
Overwintering harlequin ladybirds:
http://www.ace-sap.it/UploadDocs/3270_WATANABE2002.pdf
Ecology of dormancy in ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) - Piotr Ceryngier (2015)
Ceratomegilla undecimnotata -
Ladybirds, Naturalist's handbook. Correction: The study showing which ladybirds used up their fat reserves faster was Hariri, 1966 and not 1975.
https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19810583127 - Overwintering of Aphidecta Obliterata in northeastern Scotland, WH Parry.
Hippodamia Arctica's reduction in range in the last 1000 years: https://www.jstor.org/stable/75635?seq=1
Information on 7-spots' behaviour: https://influentialpoints.com/biocontrol/Coccinella_septempunctata_seven-spot_ladybird.htm
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0013873817090019
Mode of overwintering of invasive H axyridis in the Netherlands: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10526-011-9394-2
Toxicity of ladybirds - Orange, 2-spot and pine found to be the most poisonous https://www.nature.com/articles/srep11021
Another study on toxicity of ladybirds https://www.researchgate.net/profile/NM_Marples/publication/226922678_Toxicity_assays_of_ladybirds_using_natural_predators/links/5534dba40cf283a8f60be2e5/Toxicity-assays-of-ladybirds-using-natural-predators.pdf
Spotlight, Ladybirds by Richard Comont
Field guide to the ladybirds of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by Helen Roy et al.
Listener's questions are out! Find out why you might not be able to smell a ladybird, why ladybirds snuggle together in the winter, how they are affected by global warming and more.
With a promo for How to Enjoy Experimental Film with Daniel Adams, available on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.
Sources:
Overwintering harlequin ladybirds:
http://www.ace-sap.it/UploadDocs/3270_WATANABE2002.pdf
Ecology of dormancy in ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) - Piotr Ceryngier (2015)
Ceratomegilla undecimnotata -
Ladybirds, Naturalist's handbook. Correction: The study showing which ladybirds used up their fat reserves faster was Hariri, 1966 and not 1975.
https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19810583127 - Overwintering of Aphidecta Obliterata in northeastern Scotland, WH Parry.
Hippodamia Arctica's reduction in range in the last 1000 years: https://www.jstor.org/stable/75635?seq=1
Information on 7-spots' behaviour: https://influentialpoints.com/biocontrol/Coccinella_septempunctata_seven-spot_ladybird.htm
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0013873817090019
Mode of overwintering of invasive H axyridis in the Netherlands: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10526-011-9394-2
Toxicity of ladybirds - Orange, 2-spot and pine found to be the most poisonous https://www.nature.com/articles/srep11021
Another study on toxicity of ladybirds https://www.researchgate.net/profile/NM_Marples/publication/226922678_Toxicity_assays_of_ladybirds_using_natural_predators/links/5534dba40cf283a8f60be2e5/Toxicity-assays-of-ladybirds-using-natural-predators.pdf
Spotlight, Ladybirds by Richard Comont
Field guide to the ladybirds of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by Helen Roy et al.
Previous Episode
Episode 22: Horticulture in Australia with @moltopopulare
I spoke to Charlotte, a horticulture student in Melbourne and former florist who tweets as @moltopopulare. We have a fun interview where we talk about gardening during Covid, the harlequin ladybird, dangerous spiders and more!
Next Episode
Episode 24: Ladybirds in the Winter
All about what ladybirds do in winter. With a promo for the new book Histeridae, Sphaeritidae and Silphidae of Britain and Ireland, by Lane, Lucas and Whiffin. You can buy it here:
Field guide to the ladybirds of Britain and Ireland - Roy et al.
Spotlight Ladybirds by Richard Comont
http://www.ace-sap.it/UploadDocs/3270_WATANABE2002.pdf
- Information on Harlequin ladybirds.
https://academic.oup.com/ee/article-abstract/34/2/432/461808 - Study on the 7-spots in Honshu
https://www.academia.edu/download/45639264/ceryngier_2015_ladybird_dormancy.pdf - Ecology of dormancy in ladybird beetles (2015) by Ceryngier.
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