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.
1st Weather Reconnaissance Squadron German submarines. Work started in 1940 on an alternative, the North Atlantic ferry route, a series of shorter flights across Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland and Iceland to the UK. The necessary airfields and resources were in place by summer of 1942 for the first large scale flights by the Eighth Air Force. Large numbers of aircraft were ferried during the summer but weather conditions in the winter closed the route and made any crossing more perilous. The stormy and erratic weather in the North Atlantic region presented the same problem faced by ships sailing between North America and Britain, and required