Great news for ladybug lovers: The beetles are back! Our ladybugs, Hippodamia convergens, have been noncollectable for a few months due to a long spell of flaming hot and crispy dry California weather — you can get the details of that in a previous post. Well, now they are back. Finally we can fill backorders and have removed the “backorder” disclaimer from the ladybug entry in our online shop, now offering you this ordering convenience.
What About Next Year?
Will this happen again next summer? Only time will tell, but according to some, weather patterns will continue to get more and more bizarre as an effect of global warming. I saw Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and there was admittedly some compelling evidence. And some of that evidence indicated that the rapid changes we are experiencing today, however naturally cyclic they may be, are far more pronounced and dramatic nowadays. Be afraid, be very afraid.
What are your feelings about global warming? Are we in serious trouble? Is it hype, fact, or a bit of both?
Living with Pests on a Warming Planet - GreenMethods.com responds:
Posted: December 6th, 2007 at 1:48 am →
[…] In a previous post announcing the return of ladybugs I asked no one in particular if this might happen again next year. I brought up the fact that the possibility does indeed exist because mother nature is having her way with us by way of the unnaturally and unprecedented accelerated rate of global warming. I got an indirect answer to this recently thanks to the Bio-Integral Resource Center (BIRC). […]