Ok I notice strange shit….

[Skipp]

I’ve went in two trips this year….about 500 miles each one….i haven’t had to clean my windshield one time….what happened to all the damn bugs….used to be every gas stop you were scrubbing the crap out of bug guts….just very curious….

 

[Harquebus]

I have noticed the lack of bugs. They were smashed all over the fronts of cars during interstate travel in the past and you could entertain yourself with the "bug slaughter" on the windshield during a long trip.

I used to absolutely get eaten up by mosquitoes in years past but not anymore. Plus there were tons of honeybees pollenating everything and you'd get stung walking barefoot in the grass or the kids did... . . .

 

[Skipp]

I was camped under a dusk to dawn light….didnt notice it until too late….but I sat there until 11pm in shorts with no shirt on and not one bug anywhere….

 

[cl350rr]

Wow, you need to visit my back yard, I give blood daily.

 

[Skipp]

Wow, you need to visit my back yard, I give blood daily.

Lmao….we’re usually inundated with blood suckers….but for the past few weeks nothing but lightening bugs…or as some call them, fire flys….

 

[mchadsey1]

Lmao….we’re usually inundated with blood suckers….but for the past few weeks nothing but lightening bugs…or as some call them, fire flys….

Wanna trade ?

 

[superflea]

I was camped under a dusk to dawn light….didnt notice it until too late….but I sat there until 11pm in shorts with no shirt on and not one bug anywhere….

Misquitos don't like Booze.

 

[Skipp]

Misquitos don't like Booze.

That worm seemed to be enjoying himself….i think…

actually a grub

 

[cl350rr]

We have noted a significant reduction it butterflies in the yard this year. We have hosted Monarch butterflies for the past 5 or so years and normally right now we would be surrounded by them. This summer we have had only two females laying eggs and have only hatched out a dozen or so. Swallowtails are the same story, normally they would be flying through the yard all day long, this year I have only seen a dozen or so.

Today's hatch:

 

[sparkwizard]

I normally have swarms of humming birds and finches on my feeders all summer. I have not seen any hummers, and only a few finches.
Hornets, wasps, yellowjackets and carpenter bees are having a banner year, though.

 

[ZR9B]

come to my house...crazy amount of fireflies and mosquitos....un north, damn horse flies. We were doing real good until it got humid.

 

[sparkwizard]

We saw one firefly out in our front yard, while we were watching fireworks on the 4th. First firefly I had seen in North Carolina in over 8 years.

 

[Skipp]

They’ve been absent here for a long time…but this year back with a vengeance….

We saw one firefly out in our front yard, while we were watching fireworks on the 4th. First firefly I had seen in North Carolina in over 8 years.

 

[Mr. Pink]

2025 Central Illinois Report (my observations)

Mosquitos - Fewer than normal
Wasps - Fewer than normal
Yellowjackets - None yet
Ticks - More than normal
Humming birds - More than normal
Orioles - None
Monarchs - None
Swallowtail Butterflies - More than normal
Poison Ivy - More than normal
Deer - Normal
Turkeys - Fewer than normal
Fireflies - More than normal

 

[bruces]

You guys can stop looking ,we had a late spring this year and all your mosquitoes are around here right now .Usually gone by the end of June ,but they are still in full force .You are welcome to come pick them up anytime if you are lonely for them .

 

[sparkwizard]

I built and installed bat houses 2 years ago. I never see the bats, but we don't have skeeters anymore. And are beside a huge, very moist 60 acres of tall jungle.

 

[Harquebus]

Had a bumper crop of June beetles at the start of the week, all buzzing over the lawn and breeding I suppose. These are the thumb-sized, huge and rather intimidating green and gold beetles. They are excellent flyers by the way and harmless except for bumping into the occasional window.

 

[Triley41395]

Had a bumper crop of June beetles at the start of the week, all buzzing over the lawn and breeding I suppose. These are the thumb-sized, huge and rather intimidating green and gold beetles. They are excellent flyers by the way and harmless except for bumping into the occasional window.

Those green and gold are Japanese beetles.

 

[Harquebus]

Those green and gold are Japanese beetles.

Japanese beetles are pea sized at best, or so I thought....

What I call a June Bug is a monster as big as an average man's thumb [first joint]. I think we might be victim to regional colloquialisms.

 

[Mr. Pink]

I spotted this guy a couple weeks ago.
An insect that I have never seen before.
Google tells me it is a Candy Striped Leafhopper.