best daily mail story ever?
 

Vile-smelling foreign ladybirds set to invade homes this winter



By Daily Mail Reporter


As winter approaches, households around the UK will be invaded by a sticky and foul-smelling invader.

Harlequin ladybirds first arrived in Britain from Asia in the summer of 2004 and quickly spread across England and intoWales. They have been spotted as far north as the Orkney Islands.
Now scientists say their numbers across the country have dramatically escalated

The mini-beasts, which push themselves through household cracks as the weather turns cold, emit a yellow chemical when disturbed that stains walls and furnishings.
Called 'reflex blood' it is packed full of chemicals that give off a bad odour.

There are 46 species of ladybird (Coccinellidae) resident in Britain, but the aggressive Harlequin threatens many of them. Larger and spottier than native species they feed on other ladybird lava and caterpillars. A single female can lay over a thousand eggs

Scientists at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) are so concerned that they have launched the UK Ladybird Survey to track the invasion.
Ladybird expert Dr Helen Roy from CEH said: 'Their numbers are huge, particularly in the South East. They have spread more quickly than the grey squirrel ever did.'
They have asked homeowners who spot the species to email their pictures to the Harlequin Ladybird Survey website. Those with smartphones can text LADYBIRD to 83040 to receive a link to upload their photos from their mobile.
Harlequins do look similar to the native seven-spot ladybird, but only harlequins


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It's astonishing how an article about ladybirds still reeks of Xenophobia.

Awesome. It did make me cry with laughter when I read it. Accidentally, I've spotted a ladybird in my room yesterday, and left it there.

Only a mentalist would think that way.

Looks like the BBC can also be easily accused of "xenophobia" by mentalists. The key word not to use to avoid their asinine wrath is clearly "alien".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4348881.stm

Only a pissant would miss the opportunity to point out that the Daily Mail are slightly more racist than Jeremy 'I hate blacks, Jews and them bloody mussers' Clarkson.

And it's precisely this sort of reasonable posting that's going to lead people on this forum to vote Tories. You are personally responsible for the imminent destruction of the whole of the UK. I hope you're happy in your reasonably tidy, neatly decorated ivory tower OF BLOOD.

You read the Guardian, don't you? :rolleyes:

You know......nevermind.

I'm sorry, did I come across like a simpering, yoghurt-weaving, pastafarian cuntwit buying organic fucking almonds imported from fucking Albania talking about how cultural my fucking fake dreads are because I once listened to a Bob Marley record and saw a black man playing a fucking bongo from my fucking stupid fucking car that's made out of pure cunt-for-brains fucking car-material? Because I really didn't mean to.

WTF is a ladybird?

at first, I read "ladyboys".

font size is small on phone, but it's good for a laugh.

Hahaha Charlie Brooker, you're so FUCKING urbane, I love how you state the FUCKING OBVIOUS all the CUNTING TIME YOU SHITCANDLE.

Move closer to the screen on your phone.

i remember one daily mail headline read:

immigrants are to blame for crime!

glice gets repped? since when?

They are! So what's your point?

daily mail island.

Thanks Glice your rebuttals are hilarious. I alway look forward to your posts.

Ladybirds are what we call ladybugs here in the states. It's rumored to be bad Voodoo if you kill one.