What happened to all the bugs?

[Clive]

  On 13/07/2022 at 19:41, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Same. It’s really noticeable this year. 
Usually the light going through the back door means it’s plastered in moths and insects. This year I’ve not seen a single moth. We also usually see a shedload of bats, they circuit the house hoovering up free dindins and this year so far we’ve seen none

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I can agree with number of bats.....when we moved here 8 years ago or so there would be many circling the trees at the bottom of our garden,  last night just 2.

House sparrows are in very limited numbers too, but bleeding Magpies, lots of them.

 

[Tango]

  On 13/07/2022 at 19:41, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Same. It’s really noticeable this year. 
Usually the light going through the back door means it’s plastered in moths and insects. This year I’ve not seen a single moth. We also usually see a shedload of bats, they circuit the house hoovering up free dindins and this year so far we’ve seen none

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As I said, we've got them all!

Housemartins and Swifts hoovering them up during the day and the bats taking the evening and night shifts.

[Tym]

All our bats died from some kind of white mold. 

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

  On 13/07/2022 at 20:02, Tym said:

All our bats died from some kind of white mold. 

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I didnt know that was a real thing. Looked it up its said its a fungus, White-nose syndrome, probably introduced from Europe.

[Tym]

  On 13/07/2022 at 20:18, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

I didnt know that was a real thing. Looked it up its said its a fungus, White-nose syndrome, probably introduced from Europe.

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As a citiZen of the EU i resent you blaming the lab in wuhan china for covid, umm. 

[Buckster]

  On 13/07/2022 at 20:22, Tym said:

As a citiZen of the EU i resent you blaming the lab in wuhan china for covid, umm. 

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Turns out it came from an American military lab.