I took my dog for a walk this morning and saw something I realized I hadn’t seen in a while: a bee. Not a yellow jacket, not a carpenter bee, not a hornet - an actual honeybee.
@jerry here in the south part of Denmark, we don't see grasshoppers very often anymore. And over all, every insect type has dramatically decreased over the last 20 years.... We can drive for hours and the car is bug free. Unlike when I was a kid, we had to clean the headlights and windscreen every gas station stop
@jerry I went for a drive in the country a few weeks ago. I hit one large insect. I remember as a kid, scrubbing the front of my parents car windshield to get all the dead bugs off, whenever we’d go out to the cabin. The last time I drove to the cabin (4 years ago?) I think we hit maybe 10 bugs. It’s probably fine, I mean most cereal crops don’t rely on pollinators, right?
@jerry Thankfully we've had a lot of bees in our pollinator flowers all spring and summer. Not huge numbers, but more than a few, enough to stay hopeful that we are stable-ish here in MN
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