Anyone else experiencing a decline in ladybugs in their area lately? I live in northeast of US.

Yes. Also fireflies and cabbage moths/little white butterflies. I see more dragonflies these days, though. They're constantly hovering above my car and only my car. They don't bother anyone else's cars. The theory is because my car is green-ish and well shined, it looks like water to stupid, stupid dragonflies

I cannot say with certainty that I am observing a decline because I have no accurate numbers on my previous experience with them, but I have seen plenty of ladybugs and cabbage moth this year. I've seen some young mantis a couple months ago but no older ones yet. Plenty of spiders and wasps of course, in the pokemon route of my house at least half the encounters are just european paper wasps and black widows, since they often are found inside of human-stuff that I move.

I have a milkweed patch that grows every year, and have yet to see a monarch. Plenty of milkweed bugs though.

>>5000532
oh and I live in the high desert, dry-summer continental climate of Salt Lake valley. It freezes in winter, it's rainless for months in summer.

>>5000518 (OP)
I recently planted some climbing plants in my parent's garden to cover up an old rusty jungle gym that was kind of an eyesore and the plants seem to be a paradise for ladybugs. I saw several adults, some of them banging, and also yellow tiny eggs under some leaves, and some larvae climbing around

>>5000518 (OP)
Insect populations in general are in decline, sad but the general public doesn't care about insects.

>>5000683
They really should, because without insects all the plants will die.
It's an easy fix too. We just need to ban glyphosate.

I've never had many. I get soldier beetles instead. Same niche.

>>5000690
Fine, I'll use triclopyr

>>5000690
But what about the quarterly earnings reports???

All I'm seeing is fucking honey bees likely driving out natural pollinators. Emotional greentards who have no fucking clue about nature are putting up hives everywhere. It's the same shit as preventing controlled burning and then crying about devastating wildfires, wah wah look at me, I am a GOOD PERSON.

my mom once spent an entire day wiping out these weird black and orange bugs from her garden. She even sent me a picture like this to show me the bugs. She was not happy when I told her what she did....
Probably need to educate more people on what the nymphs look like. I doubt the average person could tell this thing turns into a ladybug.

>>5001506
>All I'm seeing is fucking honey bees likely driving out natural pollinators.
and do you have any actual proof beyond your worthless anecdote which is most likely exaggerated? i already know the answer but i want to see what you say

>>5001572
https://peerj.com/articles/14699/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s004420050034
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1439179115001504
etc etc
try acquiring basic search skills

>>5001506
>hating on honey bees of all things
Now I truly have seen everything.

>honey bees replace other bees by doing the same fucking thing
>they also pollinate our crops better and give us honey
Oh no

Anyways

>>5001560
They do look like weird alien creatures so I almost get it, but on the other hand why would you try to remove a bug if you don't know what it does or if it's harmful to plants

>>5001591
>use brush to pollinate
>make HFCS
lol who needs bees