Article: Ladybird invasion at church.

Article: Ladybird invasion warning.(News)
Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  April 26, 2008 ;     443 words ...INVADING foreign ladybirds are putting native British species at risk of being wiped out, scientists have warned. The harlequin ladybird, which originates in Asia, has now spread up through the British Isles as far as Northern Ireland and Scotland. Harlequin ladybirds are voracious aphid eaters and

Article: Toxic ladybird invasion 'puts 1,000 native species ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  June 30, 2009 ;     513 words ...MORE than 1,000 native species are threatened by soaring numbers of the toxic harlequin ladybird, scientists say. A study claims the fast-breeding invader is putting British insects, parasites and fungi at risk. Since it arrived in the South of England in 2005, the harlequin has colonised Britain

Article: GREAT DAY FOR A FETE.
Eastbourne Herald (Eastbourne, England);  May 31, 2005 ;     302 words ...JEVINGTON Church's summer fete took place at Filching Manor by kind permission of Greta Foulkes-Halbard on Saturday May 28. Filching Manor ...

Article: One sting and I've swatted away all my care for wasps.(Features)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  September 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... intent on confining us to barracks with a late summer wasp plague, the like of which has not been seen since the Great Ladybird Invasion of 1976 (Does anyone else remember this - are you still suffering from the childhood trauma of having to tread on scores ...

Article: Bathers all aquiver as plagueof jellyfish hits Welsh ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  June 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... reported after the warm weather resulted in more bee hives than usual. THE year of the drought in 1976 gave rise to the Great Ladybird Invasion. Ladybird numbers are influenced by how many greenfly have been around during their growing season. OF course, mention ...

Article: NEWS.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England);  October 13, 2007 ;     474 words ... ... the first case of its kind, he was handed the penalty after a council officer saw him smoking a cigarette in Oldham. LADYBIRD INVASION NOTHING can be done to stop an invasion of Asian ladybirds which eat British ones and infest homes, experts said yesterday ...

Article: Home truths.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  September 10, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... intent on confining us to barracks with a late-summer wasp plague, the like of which has not been seen since the Great Ladybird Invasion of 1976 (does anyone else remember this ( are you still suffering from the childhood trauma of having to tread on scores ...