Millions of Ladybugs Converge in Oakland Redwoods [View all]

[arcane1]

Every winter, between the months of November and February, millions of ladybugs appear in the parks up in the Oakland hills. You’ll find them in ginormous clusters, covering trees, logs, and on and under fallen leaves in Redwood Regional Park, Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve, and Joaquin Miller Park. The convergent lady beetles migrate like clockwork from the California coast to overwinter in these East Oakland woods.

Scientists still don’t know why the ladybugs come to this location in Oakland, or even how they know to come to the same spot that their forebugs have come to in winters past. But what naturalists do know is that they gather for warmth, to hibernate, and do the deed while they’re all huddled together so closely.

-snip-

http://cdn.thebolditalic.com/e=c(resrcit_cdn_origin)/s=w1600,pd1.2/o=85/?1415852621


http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/6283-millions-of-ladybugs-converge-in-oakland-redwoods

(video at link)