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Sources - A Natural History of the Ladybird Beetles by Michael Majerus
Spotlight Ladybirds by Richard Comont
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00305316.2020.1763871 - Review of the genus Hippodamia in the Palearctic region, 2020
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-8601-3_9 - Is the lifecycle of high arctic aphids adapted to climate change?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022191000001530 - Insects in hypoxia
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-1896-8_10 - Ecological and experimental exposure of insects to anoxia reveals surprising tolerance. From the book 'Anoxia' by William Wyatt Hoback et al.
https://top10nos.com/arctic-plants/
https://cityandgarden.com/plants-in-the-tundra/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20160308-how-one-squirrel-manages-to-survive-being-frozen - Details about the ground squirrel, red bark beetle and wood frog.
https://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Hippodamia+arctica - Picture of the Hippodamia Arctica ladybird used for this episode.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/455668-Hippodamia-arctica - More pictures of the ladybirds.
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