Posted on 08/21/2022 3:53:10 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Chickens are God’s Most Useful Creation! :)
Haven’t seen a mosquito all summer..
They’ve been keeping up with the news and see that they’re on the menu
I went to pull one of those things off a tomato plant once and the little sob turned around and tried to bite me.
We are usually hammered with mosquitoes here in northern Illinois but this year isn’t bad. I usually get chased off of the pier while fishing at dusk but so far I have been bit twice this summer, which is unbelievable. I figured the purple martins might have something to do with it. There is no shortage of yellow-jackets, carpenter bees, and wasps though.
Not too hard to figure out. Bugs need water just like every other living thing.
I didn’t see many bugs during that 1-2 months of no rain and near or at 100 degrees every day while trying to keep things alive in the garden, not even ticks. All the bugs died or went into hiding. A lot of the country had that weather, as has happened before and will happen again, experts(like me) say.
Weather has cooled off and we got some rain so yesterday, I evidently stepped into a nest of seed ticks aka baby ticks.
We are all gonna die of starvation then.
Fewer bugs? I have all the same ones as last year, plus an explosion of spotted lanternflies. They’re all over the place.
If you took a road trip in the right season back in the 70’s (WI), your car grill would be covered with Monarchs.
New Jersey insects must have flown the coop for Florida.
Not as many mosquitoes, but I think it is due to the very cool nights and up to a day ago, dryness. Give them a week after the rains.
Sure are plenty of crickets.
Less ticks this year around my home. It’s a good year.
Plenty here in Louisiana....Send me pre paid envelopes and I’ll send ya sum!
Oh, there ain’t no bugs on me
There ain’t no bugs on me
Might be bugs on some of you mugs
But there ain’t no bugs on me
Well, there goes the plan to eat bugs to sustain the planet...
😆😂🤣🤪 Excellent!
I hear bug farming is becoming the thing!
Sand flies in Northern Michigan are up, Dragon Flies that eat them down.
This was a huge grass hopper year however.
But these types of up and down populations happen all the time.
Eating them all up is sure not going to help the insect populations.
Are ALL insects to become endangered species because of the insatiable appetites of humanity?
Ants have a certain tang to them. Kick over an anthill and lap them up.
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