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Lack of Insects this year.

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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I haven't seen any mosquitoes, gnats, butterflies, flies and
bees the past week or so. I'm 10 miles from town, in the middle
of corn fields and bean fields.

I've been harvesting brown eyes for seeds.
Some eyes don't have seeds.


I won't be upset if after harvest I don't see any dang STINK
BUGS invade my pole barn.

What gives with insects..
 
Last year I saw almost 0 lightening bugs. This year they're thick. Two years ago I was hard pressed to find a spider now they are a bit more numerous. Swallowtail butterflies are thick but the usual hoard of small brown butterflies are absent. Dragonflies remain pretty stable.

As you say, the stink bugs and Asian ladybugs will be back soon.
 
We have our share. Mosquitos were terrible earlier, not bad now. Wasps everywhere in spring but hardly see them now. Flea beetles chewed up the young canola crop. I have been fighting potato bugs in my garden for several weeks now. Started seeing quite a few grasshoppers this week too. I've probably missed a few.
 
Ticks, chiggers, flys, mosquitos, wasps, yellow jackets, honey bees, butterflies..... Plenty of bugs in Alabama!
 
Very few wasps and bees anymore compared to years ago,leave a light on all night very few bugs around it.Bad omen in my opinion as problem move up the food chain.Weed and short grass psychosis has taken its toll as food and habitat for small animals,bugs,bees, insects,etc is destroyed.
 
My observation also. Am able to sit on the back parch all nite with no mosquitos other years they would drive me indoors at sunset. I have been mentioning that all summer and folks say sure cause you spread all that insecticide. Good to hear folks down south and north still have plenty of bugs.
 
We are in a major drought in New Jersey, and have fewer gnats and mosquitoes as a result. There are still plenty of horse flies and deer flies, hornets, wasps, praying mantes, and stink bugs. Quite a few bumbles and mason bees, and a few honeybees, but not like there used to be. And the dreaded lantern fly is all over, too.
 
Mosquitos are hardly noticeable, vs last year, something I've never encountered before was getting swarmed by them when about 100 yards from the house. Black flies, gnats, no-seeums, etc. are also absent for the most part. The fly with black marks on its wings, the one that orbits your head until it lands to bite, are gone. They are seasonal here, like early June to August, then that's it, hardly any this year. It's been very dry for at least 6 weeks, and we do get some rain, but the ground is very dry, the front lawn was crunching under my feet. Even with the recent periods of high humidity, these insects are scarce. It's been quite hot this summer, and we are just now dealing with bouts of high humidity, so we've had it pretty good this year.
 
Plentiful amount of bugs, bees, wasps, butterflies, lightening bugs, spiders, crickets, beetles, and assorted others, in MN too.
 
Southwest Michigan here, me and my neighbor have been saying the same thing. Seems a little off kilter if you ask us. A year or two ago they had several viruses out breaks spread by mosquitos around these parts, the powers that be sprayed but I am not aware of them doing it this year. Makes one wonder if this isn't some kind of residual effect? I use that Bacteria Thurgamawatchayoucallit in the pond and areas where water pools, but that still doesn't account for the lack of flying parasites. Deerfly, horseflies, gnats, sweat bees, mosquitos, all seem down this year. "Not that that's a bad thing." We know these things progress in cycles and I'm inclined to believe it is again. I will tell you what is up in numbers around here: rabbits. Can't help but wonder if there wasn't some rabbit disease going around for that last few years. My neighbor's daughter is a scientist that is tracking rabbit population in western Colorado. There is a virus or something that's been on their radar for a while. Just glad to know we got people on it.

JD
 
If you where a insect would you want to bite a human that could have or had the other bug?

Vito
 
I live in a woods north of Ft Wayne. If you are going to be outside more than 10 minutes, you better put insect repellent on or your veins will be drained.
 
Haven't seen many Ticks this year but Deer Flies and Skeeters are plentiful. BTW my wife calls Deer Flies sweat bees any one else call them that? She is from Vermont, could be a Vermont thing.
 
I see plenty of insects. More lightening bugs this year. Here in Midwest we are spraying crops for Japanese beetles. I have jap beetles on treesI have used the Beetle bag traps. Have collected over a five gallon bucket of beetles in three weeks.
 
Have a white faced hornet nest on the side of the garden shed, about the size of a basket ball. Behind the garden shed is a swarm of Latern Flies, which look like a moth but suck sap. The stink bugs have pretty much gone away the last several years but we had a slew of flies in June. Insects populations seem to go in cycles.
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Same hear in Western Pennsylvania. Major population loss compared to 1970's and earlier. Back then it was a necessary to have screen doors and window screens but not today. Around 1980 my two young boys, as a scouting project put together an elaborate moth and butterfly collection; recently the grandson tried to start one but quickly gave up.
Right now I am typing this in my bedroom with the window wide open, just one insect (mosquito) has come in over 30 minute period.
The decline coincides with the wide spread use of herbicides and pesticides doesn't it?
 
We have bugs but in the yard with all the chickens, Guineas, frogs, toads, and the many other wild birds Miss Candy caters too, there is a significant reduction of bugs this year.
 
Dry year will usually reduce the number of insects by quite a bit. Would seem like that would reduce the total for future years though as soon as it rains a lot they are back with a vengeance. Skeeters have not been a problem as dry as it has been all summer. With the recent rains they will now explode in numbers and be a pest for the rest of the summer.
 
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