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3. Sixty years ago my yard would have hundreds

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Feb 13, 2020, 07:34 AM

Feb 2020

of them on a summer evening, now you may see a couple.
We have been losing population in this area for decades so it is not that it has become more urban. I have always thought bug zapers are what is killing them off. Is there any indication that is partly responsible for the decline?
I look around the neighborhood at night and nearly everyone has a bug zapper outside.

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