The Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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While on a walk on the North York Moors, I came across a swarm of ladybirds. They were in dense clusters all over the ground between low stunted heather bushes (Calluna vulgaris) no more than 4 ins in height.

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I’m fishing for an account of the great ladybird years of 1976 or 1959. Reasons for such events.

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17 March 1990. “While on a walk on the North York Moors, I came across a swarm of ladybirds. They were in dense clusters all over the ground between low stunted heather bushes (Calluna vulgaris) no more than 4 ins in height.” (J. Salter)

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