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it does seem like I see far fewer insects now than i would see 15 years ago. i assumed that was just OK vs. MD rather than an actual trend. since i think insects in general are pretty neat, I'd rather see more of them as long as they're not mosquitoes.
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Originally Posted by Ponderosa
I don't know if windshields are a good barometer. Cars today are far more aerodynamic than in decades past. Windshields are swept way back rather than more upright to decrease drag. Many bugs just pass over in the air. Drive a Jeep and then tell me you get fewer bugs!
Not in my neck of the woods. We have all sorts of critters. Lot's of grasshoppers, preying Mantis. All sorts of different spiders that are pretty big. Winged bugs that I have no idea what they are. Lot's of butterflies too in the summer and fall. the Monarchs are beautiful this year and there are a lot of them. The ant colonies in my yard are insane. Keeping a lid on them is difficult. What I don't see a lot of are Bees and Ladybugs and that concerns me.
Apparently, some posters here don't think they will be affected if insects disappear and are glad to be rid of them. Funny how this type of aberrant thinking, seems to have an almost absolute correlation to conservatism and alt-rightism. Maybe it's the common practice they all share, of rejecting science and facts from their considerations.
If you haven't already done so, you might be interested in reading Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction - very well written and scientifically accurate. Also, depressing as hell.
The right wing now rejects science unless it serves their political interests. They don't understand how life is all interrelated from single celled organisms to human beings. All you'll ever get from them is "Ugh! INSECTS! Glad they're gone." Hell, it's hard to get even progressives to write a letter to their congressperson about the on-going decline in the population of bees, never mind insects in general.
The right wing lets Breitbart and Steve Bannon do their critical thinking for them now-a-days. It's much easier for them to sit back and drink the kool aid then it is to go to their windows and check out the environment around them.
I've been monitoring such sites as NOAA and the EPA so that I can catch any new data that shows up on climate change and download it on my hard drive in time before those studies mysteriously disappear. I caught a 200 page plus evaluation of global warming that quickly got vanished without any explanation. Hey, thanks Trump. Is America great yet?
No, but at least we don't have anymore insects. Winning!
I see as much, or more insect population where I live. Lots of bug splatters on my airplane, and car windscreens. My cat caught a Preying Mantis on my deck recently. It survived. I got it from him, and released it. He wasn't happy.
I see as much, or more insect population where I live. Lots of bug splatters on my airplane, and car windscreens. My cat caught a Preying Mantis on my deck recently. It survived. I got it from him, and released it. He wasn't happy.
Well, since you live in the "USA" that really doesn't tell us much. I'll see your one preying mantis and play MY three preying mantises that I caught myself in one night late this summer. Plus, Colorado's pine beetle population is soaring in number. Won't be long before every pine tree in the Rockies gets sucked dry and dies, so I guess the insects are fine.
My cats get mad when I take away the chipmunks they catch. Cats get irritable that way for some reason.
Well, since you live in the "USA" that really doesn't tell us much. I'll see your one preying mantis and play MY three preying mantises that I caught myself in one night late this summer. Plus, Colorado's pine beetle population is soaring in number. Won't be long before every pine tree in the Rockies gets sucked dry and dies, so I guess the insects are fine.
My cats get mad when I take away the chipmunks they catch. Cats get irritable that way for some reason.
Well, I have moved around a good bit due to my job, and company moving me. I spent several years in Colorado, (Denver burbs) and consider it my other home. Currently in PA about an hour from where I grew up. Hope that helps.
I have taken away two dead birds from my cat that he caught on the deck at different times. The deck is to high for him to jump off, but it allows him to be outside kind of, and he enjoys it. His M.O. is to catch the bird, and then cunningly try to evade me when he comes back in, and takes it immediately under the sofa.
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