- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Plus look at tractor fans and radiator screens when cutting hay or silage usually a sticky mess of insects.
Insect decline guess who's also to blame
- Thread starter Sid
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inspector pre Covid looking at one of our dirty water settlement ponds, about to hold forth, dried up under my withering glare as at least 6 really big blue dragonflies flittered back and forth over the water, a duck family flew out from the surrounding undergrowth and bees and insects swarmed amongst the wild flowers around the edges. It was sweet, a great moral booster and gave me immense pleasure!!!!
- Location
- somerset
it's a case of finding the facts, to suit the argument, whether correct, wrong, twisted or disproved, the 'punishment' is to print an apology, usually in very small print. But the damage has been done, the number of people that read that retraction, is tiny.
But, it's perfectly allright to do, our politicians do it all the time.
But, it's perfectly allright to do, our politicians do it all the time.
Breakthru
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- Location
- Scottish Borders
Up here we had a very cold May and a distinct lack of insects especially Bumble Bees which infest my lawn at the back. I still haven't worked out if my lack of fruit on the trees this year was due to late frost or lack of pollination. Usually it is only the areas that get sun on before the frost thaws but this year it is more wide spread.
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
Everything with nectar or pollen was heaving with insects of some sort, this afternoon. Saw a Holly Blue butterfly, lots of gatekeepers, and woodland browns along hedges.
Swallows hunting above and around the cattle and sheep. I wonder if they hunt honey bees, because I saw honey bees in the feral fuchsia near a shed where swallows are nesting. There's no bee hive on the holding.
Swallows hunting above and around the cattle and sheep. I wonder if they hunt honey bees, because I saw honey bees in the feral fuchsia near a shed where swallows are nesting. There's no bee hive on the holding.
wanton dwarf
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Jeremy Whine was having a pop at agriculture for the decline in the bugs on car windows.
Evidence is there are twice as many ccars so half as many bugs on each car and they are also more aerodynamic.
But it was OK for cars to splat them as long as agriculture actively encouraged them.
I don't get this thing about splatted insects on windscreens.
If you had a population of lemmings which threw themselves onto cars and eventually people complained about the lack of lemmings getting splatted. Surely you would come to the conclusion that those splatted lemmings would not have bred. Hence those with splat tendancies die via splatting.
Therefore Darwinism is at play.
Why would you want insects splatted on your windscreen anyway ? are we going to get a breeding program until we have enough windscreen kills ?
Surely common sense says that millions of insect deaths on windscreens is going to weed out insects that are prone to windscreen splat ?
wanton dwarf
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We have swarms of insects around our ponds and in the woods. There's no cars, lorries or trains there though.
I was looking at the Hibiscus today and the number of bees totally covered in pollen. Found a huge bumblebee nest in a pile of hardcore - never seen anything like it. Hundreds of bumblebees.
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Got huge numbers of cabbage whites on our…..
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cabbages!
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cabbages!
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
I reckon there's more 'bugs' flying about now. When I was young I used to hound about on dad's quad and never ever get hit in the face or a fly in the eye when driving no matter what speed I went at
Now I get them battering off my face constantly, and I'll get something in my eye once a week! The worst is when you're only moving at 3-4mph, you see the big dopey barsteward coming a mile off but you're helpless to avoid it. They really sting as they bounce off your pupil
Now I get them battering off my face constantly, and I'll get something in my eye once a week! The worst is when you're only moving at 3-4mph, you see the big dopey barsteward coming a mile off but you're helpless to avoid it. They really sting as they bounce off your pupil
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
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I read an article about this in hedgehogs - apparently they are evolving to be faster to avoid getting squished.
Anyone who thinks the insect population is decreasing should come and have a look in our lambing poly tunnels because they are all in there. Unfortunately the birds also know this.
- Location
- Darlington
Maybe ban urban dwellers from driving their cars = less squished bugs on windscreens. How would they like that?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Snoopy Caps and Goggles
Snoopy Caps and Goggles considered essential pieces of Flight gear.
We have hundreds of the effing things on our miniscule veg patch. The gareden is gonna be like a snow blizzard shortly.Got huge numbers of cabbage whites on our…..
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cabbages!
I got sick of the same thing so I now wear safety glasses every time I go on the quad.I reckon there's more 'bugs' flying about now. When I was young I used to hound about on dad's quad and never ever get hit in the face or a fly in the eye when driving no matter what speed I went at
Now I get them battering off my face constantly, and I'll get something in my eye once a week! The worst is when you're only moving at 3-4mph, you see the big dopey barsteward coming a mile off but you're helpless to avoid it. They really sting as they bounce off your pupil
Of course, the study quoted in the BBC story compared insects around hedgerows next to a main road and insects around hedgerows away from a road. Nowt to do with the road then? Streetlights my arse. And it still got published....
Breakthru
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- Location
- Scottish Borders
Our artic spring meant you could drive past Osr fields (lots of them here) and hardly have a splash of yellow on the screen.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border