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applegrove

(129,523 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:27 PM Sep 2025

UK bug collapse:

Haha. Despite having very very low expectations, I was somehow assuming that losing 63% of all insects in just 3 years, from 2021-2024, might become a talking point for UK environmentalists.

Lolz. Haha. #DrWhoCares #CertainExtinction #Love #Peace #Happy #Holiday #Netflix #HBO #Family #Job

Hugo (@nonviolence.bsky.social) 2025-08-31T22:26:54.670Z
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alfredo

(60,243 posts)
1. I see that here in central Kentucky
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:35 PM
Sep 2025

Been like that for years. I see few birds too. I’ve only spied one butterfly even though I have planted butterfly friendly flowers.

chouchou

(2,667 posts)
2. Now that I think of it, I haven't had to wash bugs off of my car's front end in years.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:44 PM
Sep 2025

Not kidding. Perhaps I should "Stir them up"
On the other hand, I was reading in Quora that bed-bugs are getting super resistant and some hotels are getting
afraid that travelers are weary of staying in invested commendations.
Also..the bastards are getting way bigger. again..Not kidding.
"Thank you sir..That will be 173.84 for the night, Would you like things to crawl on you or not?"

Farmer-Rick

(12,340 posts)
4. I have insects everywhere
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 11:27 AM
Sep 2025

But then, I didn't mow my farm's fields this year. I let them grow wild with no pasturing animals. I mow just around my house which is about an acre or two.

I'm trying to make it comfortable for the swarm of monarch butterflies to come by again this year.

But the birds are much less. Though for the first time in 5 years, I saw a flock of Canadian geese bigger than 10 ducks. There use to be huge flocks when I was a kid.

Some places that have more wild lands have more insects and birds. But eventually we will all lose our diversity of life.

BobTheSubgenius

(12,161 posts)
5. On both sides of our townhouse development, there are ravines with creeks that run very low and slow in the summertime.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 01:10 PM
Sep 2025

I can't recall ever seeing a mosquito in the 3 years we've lived here.

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