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Weather radar detects huge ladybug cloud over California

By Daniel Chaitin
Published June 6, 2019 2:27pm ET
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Weather radar detects huge ladybug cloud over California
This Tuesday, June 4, 2019, image provided by National Weather Service radar shows a green mark that indicates a massive swarm of ladybugs over Southern California including Los Angeles and Orange County, left, with San Diego and Imperial County and the Mexican border at bottom. | (National Weather Service via AP)

Weather radar detected a large swarm of ladybugs flying over southern California on Tuesday.

“The large echo showing up on SoCal radar this evening is not precipitation, but actually a cloud of ladybugs termed a ‘bloom,'” the National Weather Service office in San Diego said in a tweet.

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