Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Last week Southern California saw a bloom of ladybugs so big it showed up on radar! As it turns out, there's a whole field of science called aeroecology that's using our increasingly accurate radar to track insects, birds and bats. Plus: ladybugs have had a lot of names over the years, including - for whatever reason - bishops!  High-flying ladybug swarm shows up on National Weather Service radar (Los Angeles Times)   'Aeroecology' uses radar to track flying animals (BBC)  Meteorologist reveals cause of colorful 100-mile-wide "cloud" over Denver (CBS News) Why Birds Make Weird Circles on Weather Radars (Vice)  Ladybirds, ladybugs, and… cows? (Oxford Dictionaries) Let's make a swarm of support for Cool Weird Awesome on Patreon!    --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message