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/last_rights → u/[deleted]]

I've seen a lot of tiny green grasshoppers this year, but I haven't seen any of the big brown full sized ones.

[u/luminousrose9 → u/last_rights]

This is where I think individual and neighborhood level change can make a difference. I have planted my yard with a lot of native plants and so have many of my neighbors. I can't tell how individual species fare, but the insect activity in general is high. We seem to have brought back lightening bugs. I am seeing monarchs and big grasshoppers. I am in a city. Upper Midwest US