Coccinellidae November depending on location and weather conditions. Homes or other buildings near fields or woods are particularly prone to infestation. After an abnormally long period of hot, dry weather in the summer of 1976 in the UK, a marked increase in the aphid population was followed by a "plague" of ladybirds, with many reports of people being bitten as the supply of aphids dwindled. The presence of coccinellids in grape harvests can cause ladybird taint in wines produced from the grapes. "Harmonia axyridis" (the harlequin ladybird) is an example of how an animal might be partly welcome and partly harmful.
Plague of 664 of Long Island, and a partial eclipse would have been possibly visible from Ireland). Bede also mentioned the eclipse but wrongly placed it on May 3. The Irish sources claimed that there was also an earthquake in Britain and that the plague reached Ireland first at Mag NItha, among the Fothairt in Leinster. Bede claimed that the plague first was in the south of Britain and then spread to the north. According to Adomnan of Iona, a contemporary Irish abbot and saint, the plague affected everywhere in the British Isles except for a large area in what would now be