Thread 509795694

do you think there is shortage of bugs?

I believe the question is political because someone might have killed them by using who knows what tech and it was a political decision to use it instead of inuse

year 2008:
>drive to a summer cottage and get car windshield splattered by summer bugs

year 2018:
>there are no longer bugs on the summer

they disappeared:
-grasshoppers, the bigger the more rare
-butterflies
-many kinds of spiders (normally some 20 years ago you would hit your face on spiderwebs in forest all the time)

these remain:
-mosquitoes, a lot if you are far away from 4G/5G masts
-dragonflies who feed on mosquitoes
-bees and wasps (their numbers have taken a toll but they are still around)
-ants (they seem largely ineffected by whatever was making bugs disappear)

>>509795694 (OP)
you are eating them

>>509795694 (OP)
I want every single spider of any and every species EXCEPT for daddy long legs to go completely extinct. I fucking hate them. They're disgusting and terrifying.

>>509795824
Grim but probable

>>509795694 (OP)
It’s the nicotinamides
>t. Ex Monsanto fag
P.s. bt corn kills the monarch butterflys

I love bugs. I wish I could be an entomologist, but jobs are scarce and its too late for me.

>>509795694 (OP)
I dumped a bag of calcium coated crickets in my bioactive terrarium for my Berber Skink to eat
They are useful

>>509795853
Either you’re the biggest pussy alive or you’re a female. If the latter then you need to post tits or gtfo. If the former then please swiftly kys

>>509795694 (OP)
We still have an ungodly number of fireflies in the Midwest. And while they're not bugs, we have a tick problem beyond anything I've ever seen. But definitely a steep decline, the windshield thing is the most noticeable. Summer used to mean windshields and vehicle grills covered in bugs, but not anymore. People here have said it is because cars are not more aerodynamic, but that's total bullshit. They might be, but the decline is noticeable otherwise and I know a lot of people who drive old vehicles.

>>509795694 (OP)
you can find ted talks about this and insecticide
we killed bugs to feed ourselves
people don't understand how much insecticide is used in farming, we would be eating half eating produce and so many bugs otherwise

>>509795694 (OP)
The chinese are eating them

>>509796199
I've already had about 20 ticks crawling on me when I get out of the woods this year. Usually every time I go hiking I find at least one. By far more than I've found previously.

>>509795694 (OP)
I was chased inside by a swarm of literally a hundred mosquitos this afternoon while trying to kill all the fucking grasshoppers and aphids that have been eating my garden.

There are still plenty of bugs, but it seems like it's only the shitty ones.

Nah. When I got chickens I stopped using fertilizer and within a year all the really interesting creepy crawlie bugs are back. Stop using insecticide and chemical fertilizer and you won’t be missing your bugs
>check the bags on your fertilizer too. Almost all of them contain insecticide and they don’t even advertise it
Oh and btw my yard looks better than ever now that I fertilize with chicken shit and compost

Depends on the bug.

Not all bugs are valuable.

crickets are really expensive now here, $20 dollars a quarter of a pound

>>509796358
that sounds beliveable though, dieing from poisoning

We're in the midst of a mass extinction event and we don't know why. It's widely accepted in the scientific community at this point and the first alarm bells were being sounded a decade ago. Bugs are dying off en masse and it should concern people way more than it does. We're looking at potential collapse of entire ecosystems and we aren't separate from or immune from the consequences of that.

>>509795694 (OP)
I live in Kansas USA and there are an absolute shit ton of bugs. sliders and June bugs and mosquitos and flies and all that annoying shit

>>509795694 (OP)
>there are no longer bugs on the summer

Wife drives car, I drive van. We drive to same destination. My windshield covered in splattered bugs, hers isn't. I drive a barn, she drives an aerodynamic wedge.
t. it's a mystery

>>509795694 (OP)
>using who knows what tech

>>509795694 (OP)
I live in CT and there are fucking bugs everywhere, i did used to see more stickbugs i havent seen in years. The fishing has gone to shit as well. There is a statewide ban on eating fish caught in lakes and rivers due to pollution but CT is all woods so it has to be a jewish psyop. If you cant eat the fish out of pic related than you cant eat fish anywhere.

>>509796853
>in NH

Overrun with mosquitoes, wasps, bees, crickets, crane flies, horse flies, dragonflies, butterflies, moths, etc. And those are just the flyers!

>>509795694 (OP)
no ive fucking seen more bugs this year alone than ive seen in the past 4, im going full final solution on these niggers soon (weed wacking and poisons) also the tick population in the south didn't die off during the warm winter we had so im living in hell.

>>509797043
They don't spray ddt anymore but they do spray pesticides over cities and towns between 2-5am daily.

>>509797372
Dont forget dobson flies.
nasty fuckers.

>>509795853
Kill yourself you faggot. Spiders fucking rock. They eviscerate the niggers of the bug world (mosquitos) and make cool webs. You must not have a good father.

>>509795694 (OP)
Suomi XDDD

>>509797565
This. House flies are also niggers and spiders take care of them without ever questioning or calling off.

>>509796529
>>509796485
>>509797372
heres whats weird, bugs largely disappeared but snails have multiplied at incredible rates

No. And I fucking HATE bugs. They are pointless boring little icky shits who crawl around being bastards and getting on everybody's nerves. The only good bug is a smushed bug.
>chinese
yeah them too.

>>509795933
this. it's relatively ok, where monsanto haven't taken over yet. i have a place 50km outside the next city and there are all sorts of bugs, butterflies, spiders, and the fauna that comes with it. i miss a few butterfly types that were around whe i was a kid and larger grasshoppers. i have a variety of birds come back and nest every year, a couple of bats that hunt in the evening, bees galore, and bumblebees and woodbees too. not saying nothing has changed as indeed the autobahn leaves less trace on the windshield in comparison to say, the 80s.

>>509797808
How could you hate the Chinese, anon?
I love those little guys!

>>509797732
>bugs vanish
>snails repopulate
the french must have left your area.

>>509795694 (OP)
>urbanite thinks there are no bugs anymore
Go outside the city and you'll see millions of bugs. I'm recovering from chigger bites right now and it sucks

It’s the frogs I miss. Used to be flattened frogs and toads all over the roads. You’d see swarms of them crossing the road after a rain.
I haven’t seen a pancaked toad in 15-20 years.

>>509795694 (OP)
The pesticides are in the rainwater, that's why.

>>509796964
This.
>oh man my car that is designed to cut through the air with no resistance does smash many bugs like my parents old shitbox

>>509795694 (OP)
ah, I see you've never been to America

>>509796964
>>509798396
Yeah, this is exactly what I mentioned here >>509796199

It's different, and I'm currently in an area not far from where I grew up. This is a big one too: >>509798340

Amphibians are quite susceptible to pollutants, and a good signal for contamination. I remember telling my kids they could find a salamander under every log at my parents' house. It was a little jarring seeing none.

>>509798050
They are lower than Poo’s breakfast.
Poo’s are better than one thing and one thing only, the chinesed.

>>509798561
Nigger I've got 5 salamanders in my basement right now. Fucking memeflag idiot

>>509795694 (OP)
I usually get massacred by mosquitoes but this year i had just a hand full of bites. I dont even see them and some that i know told me the same.

>>509798635
You happy now bitch? You're a little fucking faggot, crying about pixel art flags on the internet. There's been an absolutely massive plummet in amphibians in my area. That's reality regardless of whether you want to accept it.

>>509798958
>namefag
>memeflag
>irl fag
Bro you're wrong and you like mens cocks in your ass. Just deal with it

>>509795694 (OP)
>ants
Benchod fuckers
Bloody hell
Need to import Indians into ant society

>>509799060
>seinfeld
>talks about dicks unprompted

>>509798760
No idea if they sprayed for them this year, but mosquitos are only just now getting bad. Also quite atypical given how warm it's been, usually they're bad by mid-May.

>>509795694 (OP)
I moved to GA 14 years ago and the bugs here were outrageous. They're mostly gone now. Especially the spiders. But if you kick a log over in the woods, there's nothing there. Two years ago I prolly had 20 pair of humming birds. Last year half of that. This year I prolly have 3 pair. Every thing is disappearing ... so what's the end game?

>>509796853
I'm pretty sure the weather has become disrupted, the temperature swings wildly and the snow never stays for more than a few weeks. It fucks with the life cycle for bugs.

I'm surprised that birds are not more affected by this but I have noticed many fewer swifts this year.

>>509795694 (OP)
I dunno but I have noticed a massive lack of fire flies, my families farm used to be full of them in the summer now I just see a handful if I’m lucky

>>509795694 (OP)
anybody have that video of the chick letting a mantis eat her nipple?

Spraying aluminum oxide for 70 years will do that to living things.

I am not capable of explaining to you how bad this is. Human activity was decreasing insect numbers before we were recording the numbers.

>>509800643
My backyard has hundreds of lightning bugs... They're still here. Just in the country.

>>509797878
good post!

>>509795694 (OP)
No, there are still far too many of these god damn things. Every year with thus shit

>>509800891
Unless you're over 40 you arent going to remember what it used to be like. You lack perspective. And decades long memory is a terrible reference. I would confidently say that since the year 1900 we have lost 60% of global insect biomass.

I agree, only ants and flies seem to be everywhere. I don't even feel like there's even half as many mosquitos as there were. I remember Cicadas chirping being a staple of summer time, but that's gone entirely.

>>509795694 (OP)
plant celiosa in your yard and you will have five bees and wasps on every stem

>>509797565
Hahaha that’s funny but seriously I miss my Father everyday

If there was ever a bug he would grab and throw it out. He wouldn’t use a cup or anything. Grab the bug with your hand and throw it outside. He used to smash them with his and then wipe it off on someone as a joke but the women got to crybaby about it so he quit doing that

Every Australian around age 30 remembers what happened to Christmas beetles. Every year they would appear, tens of thousands of them. And then one year you only saw 3 and then the next none. It happened so rapidly it caught everyone's attention because the bettle was tied to the time of a festival.

This is happening somewhere every week.

>>509795694 (OP)
Fuck I wish. My windshield is covered in bug guts, I take a hike and have swarms of mosquitoes or deer flies chasing me down, I walk through a patch of grass and emerge covered in ticks. It's quite the opposite up here, seems like bug populations are thriving despite this harsh winter that was supposed to kill most of the eggs off.

>>509801322
The fact there are so many ticks is proof insect numbers are going down, not up. Tick populations are kept in check by insects and spiders.

>>509800980
Yeah, you're right, I wasn't around in 1900 to confirm this. I was around since the '80s. I remember lots of bugs. I remember splattered guts all over my grill and windshield. Yes, the bug population seemingly decreased, because it's not like that now.
I specifically said lightning bugs, though. They are everywhere in the midwest state where I live.

When it comes to the food chain and the reduction of insects it really is a collapse scenario. There will not be a slow march. Once insect numbers reduce to a point of lower order food chain collapse it will very suddenly impact every animal that indirectly relies on insects as food.

>>509801393
No, they killed all the fucking chickens, so the tick population exploded.

The bugs are moving.
Some areas are wondering where the fuck the bugs went. Other areas are wondering why there's this insect apocalypse swarming every square inch around them. Question is, why?

>>509801641
False. Chickens dont even make up 50% of tick predation. This isnt a fucking deer that can only be hunted by a wolf or bear moron you're out of your depth.

>>509801193
>I miss my Father everyday
Same. And funny the topic comes up, because

>>509802034
My dad was a biologist, and always told me to watch the amphibians to gauge the health of an ecosystem as they are extremely sensitive to environmental contaminants. I mentioned in this post >>509798561 that they're basically gone in my area. I'm seeing treefrogs this year, but nothing like it used to be with salamanders everywhere. Maybe they just left, but it seems unlikely.

The worst part of all this is that developed nations will be able to continue without much harm while the wild food chain collapse and non human life is halved. They will just breed and release maintaining population numbers well below what once was.

>>509801200
Just looked this up, and they're compared to june bugs. Funny, because I haven't seen one in years.

>>509802428
Makes sense, my town that's been developed heavily used to be abundant with frogs by the river, now it's rare to see even one. But I walk by a riverbank in the country and it triggers a cascade of frogs jumping in the water to escape from me.

>>509795694 (OP)
I kill every bug I see because I do not want Klaus Schwab to force feed me bugs o algo.

>>509795853
Daddy longlegs, or harvestmen, aren't spiders.

>>509800931
My mom has been trying to grow spaghetti squash and just learned about these fuckers. She's literally out there every night with a flashlight and scissors to murder as many as she can.

>>509795694 (OP)
Oregon fag here. I live on a farm. lots of bugs including grasshoppers and butterflies. The amount of spiders is insane.
>>509795853
My house is full of spiders and webs. They are an effective pest control against all air-borne insect nigs. people think it's weird but....live out on a farm. you get reaaaaaal tired of nigs flying around your face. spiders are my homies.

>>509795694 (OP)
>>509796853
All the poison and pollutants is killing them all. Saying it is a mystery and that they "don't know" is simply because the ones who do know are never asked and their voices kept silent. Eventually only bugs that are smart enough to stay in the nooks and crannies of houses without disturbing the residents will be left.