| Where are all the insects? 15:54 - Jul 22 with 22510 views | hubble |
It's the height of summer. Usually there are loads of insects buzzing around, especially flies. Right now, in the corner of West London, there are none.
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| Where are all the insects? on 16:39 - Aug 15 with 2988 views | Gloucs_R |
I refuse to read anything from that left wing rag....
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| Where are all the insects? on 16:49 - Aug 15 with 2949 views | dmm |
| Where are all the insects? on 16:39 - Aug 15 by Gloucs_R |
I refuse to read anything from that left wing rag....
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Left Wing!?  |  | | |
| Where are all the insects? on 16:53 - Aug 15 with 2938 views | CamberleyR |
I meant to post this the other day but after taking our dogs for their walk around the fields and lanes near where I live (south Somerset/Dorset border), I noticed loads of insects and butterflies in particular out there. My village, Milborne Port, is semi rural and surrounded by fields and farmland so I don't know whether that's a factor. |  |
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| Where are all the insects? on 19:16 - Aug 15 with 2794 views | numptydumpty |
Friends saw a frog recently and there has definitely been way way less of the kernit variety to 20 or 30 years ago.
It's been very noticeable. |  |
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| Where are all the insects? on 20:23 - Aug 15 with 2704 views | StreathamRanger |
Loads of them about in the Dordogne. Noticeable how many were on the windscreen as well after the long drive down. |  | | |
| Where are all the insects? on 21:54 - Aug 15 with 2632 views | Sonofpugwash |
| Where are all the insects? on 16:49 - Aug 15 by dmm |
Left Wing!? |
Twinned with Pravda. |  |
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| Where are all the insects? on 23:14 - Aug 15 with 2563 views | PunteR |
Those tiny red spiders that sat on brick walls. What happened to them.? |  |
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| Where are all the insects? on 08:57 - Aug 16 with 2430 views | numptydumpty |
| Where are all the insects? on 23:14 - Aug 15 by PunteR |
Those tiny red spiders that sat on brick walls. What happened to them.? |
When you used to play spot ie kicking ball against the wall, there were always loads.
The population of daddy long legs seemed to be greatly diminished also...
Also, why they called "Daddy Long Legs"
Surely in today's world that's very un PC and inappropriate. And the blighters require a new name. Answers on a postcard perhaps !!! [Post edited 16 Aug 2024 8:59]
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| Where are all the insects? on 09:00 - Aug 16 with 2425 views | Metallica_Hoop |
| Where are all the insects? on 23:14 - Aug 15 by PunteR |
Those tiny red spiders that sat on brick walls. What happened to them.? |
They've migrated to washing lines, yesterday took my pants off the line and saw one hanging off it so went to put it back on the line and it ran in my pants.
I gave them a good shake out, couldn't see it so I assume it dropped out.(hopefully!) |  |
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| Where are all the insects? on 09:03 - Aug 16 with 2422 views | numptydumpty |
| Where are all the insects? on 09:00 - Aug 16 by Metallica_Hoop |
They've migrated to washing lines, yesterday took my pants off the line and saw one hanging off it so went to put it back on the line and it ran in my pants.
I gave them a good shake out, couldn't see it so I assume it dropped out.(hopefully!) |
Not quite the inspiration for the phrase "Ants in your Pants" but near enough Metallica. | |
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| Where are all the insects? on 21:05 - Aug 17 with 2248 views | Sonofpugwash |
Lots of tiny black flies in my bedroom.
Mr.Henry The Hoover got rid of them.  | |
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| Where are all the insects? on 22:24 - Aug 17 with 2200 views | BlackCrowe |
| Where are all the insects? on 21:05 - Aug 17 by Sonofpugwash |
Lots of tiny black flies in my bedroom.
Mr.Henry The Hoover got rid of them. |
Ladybirds (or maybe now personbirds) were everywhere in my childhood summers. No more. |  |
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| Where are all the insects? on 00:34 - Aug 18 with 2151 views | CLAREMAN1995 |
| Where are all the insects? on 22:24 - Aug 17 by BlackCrowe |
Ladybirds (or maybe now personbirds) were everywhere in my childhood summers. No more. |
They are now calling a mother a Birthing Person over here and Delta Airlines are no longer going to announce "ladies and Gentlemen its time to board " after they figure out what to say to include everybody .
Not sure what they are going to do about manhole covers yet 
The Ladybirds/ person are in decline due to cold weather and infistation of Asian ladybirds apparantly |  | | |
| Where are all the insects? on 16:15 - Aug 18 with 2028 views | Sonofpugwash |
| Where are all the insects? on 00:34 - Aug 18 by CLAREMAN1995 |
They are now calling a mother a Birthing Person over here and Delta Airlines are no longer going to announce "ladies and Gentlemen its time to board " after they figure out what to say to include everybody .
Not sure what they are going to do about manhole covers yet
The Ladybirds/ person are in decline due to cold weather and infistation of Asian ladybirds apparantly |
The Two Ronnies did a sketch about that and came up with "Pesson Holes" | |
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| Where are all the insects? on 18:51 - Aug 18 with 1932 views | Boston |
| Where are all the insects? on 16:15 - Aug 18 by Sonofpugwash |
The Two Ronnies did a sketch about that and came up with "Pesson Holes" |
What arsehole came up with that? | |
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| Where are all the insects? on 12:56 - Mar 9 with 1139 views | R_from_afar |
Just saw my first butterfly of the year, a comma, in the back garden  |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Where are all the insects? on 13:00 - Mar 9 with 1111 views | HantsR |
| Where are all the insects? on 12:56 - Mar 9 by R_from_afar |
Just saw my first butterfly of the year, a comma, in the back garden |
Me too, and a Brimstone. |  | | |
| Where are all the insects? on 16:27 - Mar 9 with 989 views | dmm |
| Where are all the insects? on 13:00 - Mar 9 by HantsR |
Me too, and a Brimstone. |
Yep, saw my first brimstone yesterday | | | |
| Where are all the insects? on 13:48 - May 27 with 544 views | R_from_afar |
Brace yourselves, I am going to post something positive!
We've just been on holiday in Dorset, in West Bexington. Some of the land just east of the village is owned by the National Trust and farmed in a nature-friendly way.
There seemed to be constant birdsong around the village, including from chaffinches; I haven't seen any where I live in the Bracknell area for years, possibly because a virus sometimes spread by bird feeders is affecting them.
Then we went for a walk along the coast path, east past the National Trust land. You could see that some fields had been managed as meadows rather than set to rye grass and there were a lot of thick hedges.
It was noticeable that there were a lot of flying insects, far more than I see at home, and as for the birdlife: Tremendous  .
Linnets, skylarks (loads of them), corn buntings, meadow pipits, stonechats, whitethroats, garden warblers, plus the usual suspects. I used to see linnets in the garden of my family home when I was young but for years, I haven't seen any apart from when I've been out in the wilds.
It was all very uplifting. | |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Where are all the insects? (n/t) on 14:39 - May 27 with 461 views | stantheman10 |
| Where are all the insects? on 16:49 - Jul 22 by 222gers |
I haven't noticed the famous annual Flying Ant Day, although there were a couple of days that I didn't go out.
How the flying ants coordinate with one another baffles me. |
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| Where are all the insects? on 15:02 - May 27 with 417 views | Boston |
| Where are all the insects? on 21:52 - Jul 30 by ted_hendrix |
I do like to deadhead. |
We've a lot like that over 'ere.
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