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Where are the Ladybugs !

11 years ago

Ladybugs are hibernating in the high country in California it’s the Sierra foothills, on the east coast it their mountain ranges, they will be coming to the flat lands shortly after March 1st to feed and reproduce and live until next fall and winter where they will migrate back to the high county. Someone once asked how does such a small insect manage to fly all that great distance? Answer: They are masters of the Jet Streams! They instinctually know when it’s time to catch that one Jet Stream to take them exactly were they need to go. Either to the High County or Flat lands exiting and entering the jet stream is just as important as picking which Jet stream. A few years ago they almost got off too late and almost landed in the ocean landing on a beach instead.

http://historyoftheladybug.blogspot.com/

Comments (6)

  • 11 years ago

    Air temperature in jet streams is too cold for insect flight. Some might rarely get updrafted in extreme weather to jet stream altitude, but they would not be consciously flying.


  • 11 years ago

    Interesting you are then comparing Ladybug migration to
    something like the migration of the butterflies, and the actually photos of the
    ladybugs in flight in the jet streams was just a rare once accordance?

  • 11 years ago

    Your original text above is fanciful and pleasant enough, much of it is based in fact.

    The only way to photograph tiny creatures in the jet stream would be to ease a manned or robotic balloon into the stream, so that it was travelling at the same speed as, and very close to, the insects. Not sure how you could time that out.

    Birds and insects fall en masse from the sky occasionally; they get caught up in extreme conditions there. I would think a hailstorm would harm migrating Monarch butterflies, for example. There have been reports on this forum over the years of strayed moths, way out of their normal range, borne on hurricane winds.


  • 11 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    History speaks for it self, I am not the only one that
    believes in what you call fanciful using Jet streams to travel. You make it sound like they have to enter the
    Interior of the Jet stream where I am sure yes you will need more than a robotic
    balloon more like a very powerful drone to verify that and I am sure there are skeptic
    that want more proof in this theory and if scientist could strap a tracking
    device on the ladybugs legs to track them they would have already done that. Plain and simple logic it makes sense in a
    short period of time one fines large numbers of ladybugs gathered in large numbers
    in the high county where I believe they hibernate and from there in a short
    period of time they are all gone from that very same spot. Which leads to believe they do use the air
    currents perhaps jet streams the outer currents to get around? I am sure some would believe that the photos
    were photo shopped or manipulated I believe man walked on the moon. If you can prove other wise or have a better
    theory I am listening?

  • 11 years ago

    There are various lower-atmosphere air currents, some quite strong and in the vicinity of mountains, that could overpower insect flight and deposit them at some random distance, perhaps a very few tens of miles. Navigation would be very imprecise, but the ladybugs would not be particular.

  • PRO
    6 years ago

    The photo of this Ladybug was taken at a distance near or close to the same attitude, jet streams are at different speeds, no mention to the actual speed not givien only height approx. elevation.