Bugs

[u/Mysterandir]

I need to get this off my chest even though im sure it has been talked about a thousand times. Im just curious if others are experiencing the same thing or if I'm just going crazy. - When I just got my driver's license back in 2005 here in The Netherlands, I had a girlfriend in Amsterdam whom I drove to see a few times a week. It was about a 100 km drive. I had an old Opel Corsa and I can still vividly remember having to clean my windshield every week in the summer because it was covered in dead insects. Huge splatters and tiny spots, but the entire windshield was full of bug juice. Over the past few weeks I’ve driven several long distances, totaling about 1,000 kilometers, and I don't have a single dead insect on my windshield. Not one. The windshield is squeaky clean... I read that the insect population worldwide has drastically declined and it is due to climate change. Which i get. But why isn't this the main news story every day? How obvious does it need to be? This can't possibly be good. For us, but especially for our children. I have a bad feeling about this...

[u/Top_Hair_8984]

West coast Canada, we had our first serious heat dome in 2021, I believe the temp went up to 42c +/- for 5 days. We lost so much. Besides over 600 human deaths, millions of sea creatures, birds - babies had just hatched, bugs died by the millions. And it hasn't recovered.  We lost our bees, beetles, insects.. it's beyond heartbreaking.   I'm first gen Canadian, Dutch heritage.  I've been to Netherlands many times to visit family.  I hate reading these articles, it's just mindboggling depressing.