California ladybug swarm so big it showed up on radar as 80-mile long 'bloom'
"This radar return was much larger than what those clouds could've been producing," she said.watched the patch heading southward on Wednesday morning, and disappearing from screens by noon. It was unclear where the insects were traveling from or to, she added.
However, one expert was skeptical that a loveliness of ladybugs could show up so strongly on a radar map.that the number of bugs needed to create such movement on equipment would have turned skies dark. The insects are known to come together in large groups in winter and fall, but in the thousands, not tens of millions, he said.said:"There would have been unbelievable numbers of telephone calls to the police. It merits some investigation."