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by SteelePop | June 8, 2008 at 06:24 am
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (18)
at 07:16 on June 8th, 2008
SteelePop, Lovely 'cute' but scary plague like nature story
at 07:17 on June 8th, 2008
Nice original story too!
at 07:21 on June 8th, 2008
Thank you!
at 07:20 on June 8th, 2008
I love it. Will I one day return to my California birthplace to find it consumed beneath a scuttling see of red with black polka-dots?!
at 07:33 on June 8th, 2008
It's like a Doctor Who episode: [everyday thing] X 1,000,000 = [menace]
at 11:27 on June 8th, 2008
SteelePop, I like this story. So too much of a good thing really is bad.
at 12:30 on June 8th, 2008
SteelePop, I like this story. It's good stuff. Beautifully written story.
at 13:43 on June 8th, 2008
SteelePop, I like this story. It's good stuff. I remember a situation like this some years ago in the UK when Ladybirds were so pletyful that they couldn't get enough natural food and started biting humans.
at 02:04 on June 10th, 2008
That sounds awful, and makes jordan's Doctor Who comment even more unnerving.
at 08:41 on June 9th, 2008
I have lived in Northern California my whole life, and I have seen these swarms since I was a child. There seem to be places where they always gather,especially near small creeks.
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at 23:10 on June 9th, 2008
As the weather dries out in the grassy areas, the ladybugs retreat to the more moist and cool areas of the redwood forests along and near the coast of Central California. These were in the Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve, just south of Half Moon Bay. These swarmed on horsetail plants.
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at 16:10 on June 9th, 2008
SteelePop, I like this story. It's good stuff.
After they spend time on the Coast, they leave the coast and come
inland to the inland redwoods, to an ancestral tree in Redwood Regional
Park, by the number of 40,000,000!!
"Each year Ladybugs fly in by the millions to winter in the East Bay's
Redwood Regional Park. QUEST met naturalist Linda Yemoto who explains
this phenomenon. But how these beetles know where to go is still one of
nature's mysteries."
--Redwood Regional Park website
http://www.ebparks.org/parks/redwood
at 02:05 on June 10th, 2008
Thanks for the information. I feel that one of these days I, too, must fly from the coast and swarm to my ancestral tree.
at 17:57 on June 9th, 2008
Ladybugs swarming on an Arizona mountain top
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at 05:25 on June 10th, 2008
SteelePop, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 16:43 on June 14th, 2008
A swarm of ladybugs gathered in a spot by a river and covered every surface for about 30 feet. It was both beautiful and horrifying. Once I got over the shock (I'd never seen a huge amount of anything like this before), I got out the Nikon D80 DSLR camera and started shooting. The camera, my clothing, and I were covered with ladybugs so quickly it was amazing but I didn't know they could bite so it was no big deal. LOL! An odd hole completely through a tree offered this unusual shot I took a LONG time to get even this well in focus since the camera didn't want to autofocus on anything and I had to do it manually with my poor vision. Thankfully, Nikon's display will tell you when it thinks you got it. :-)
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at 05:18 on July 12th, 2008
Hahaha "cold-blooded killers" OMG if you say so lady!
I was raised to consider them good luck and I still do.
at 21:15 on May 17th, 2009
May 17,2009 : Are they back? We walked along the bay at Crissie Field this afternoon. 100's of Ladybugs in the sand both dead & Alive! Any insights on THIS one? Thanks