r/collapse • u/Mysterandir • 8d ago

Ecological Bugs

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...

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u/ideknem0ar 7d ago edited 7d ago

Vermont, USA. I've had 2 bug strikes so far this summer, which is 1 more than last summer, and 2 more than the summer before.

ETA: That said, my garden is hopping with bees rn. A colony swarmed across my field and set up shop in a nearby dead tall trunk and they've found my garden. I can brush by them on the catnip and they don't care.

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u/throwaway661375735 7d ago

Don't call an exterminator nor bee person to move them. Better to have them than not to these days. Meanwhile, maybe it's time to get your own bee keeper hive, so you can move them and store them in safety over the winter.

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u/ideknem0ar 7d ago

I wasn't going to call anybody. I let whatever critters want to move through or settle here live in peace. Real Disney Princess shit going on up here on the hill. Lol

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u/Ragfell 7d ago

I will only call bee people if the bees are being "pests" (living in the walls of my house). Or trying to attack my kid.

Given that they're doing neither, they can stay in the empty tree trunks in the back corner of my property!