Is it just me noticing a lack of Insects so far this year

I'm in North Eastern IND close to Ohio , And there not that many flies and have not seen one mosquito so far , A few lightning bugs but nothing like normal pretty strange .

Not seen a grasshopper or the foliage being eaten by critters I can sit outside and nothing is dive bombing my wine just find it strange I'm usually chasing flies like crazy out of the house .

I wonder if those vaccines have something to do with the lack of biting bugs like Fleas and Mosquitos ?

That would not be good for bats .

Come to think of it not seen any bats or heard friends saying they got in the house .

originally posted by: Ravenwatcher
I'm in North Eastern IND close to Ohio , And there not that many flies and have not seen one mosquito so far , A few lightning bugs but nothing like naromal pretty strange .

Not seen a grasshopper or the foliage being eaten by critters I can sit outside and nothing is dive bombing my wine just find it strange I'm usually chasing flies like crazy out of the house .

There all down here in Texas.

originally posted by: TXTriker

originally posted by: Ravenwatcher
I'm in North Eastern IND close to Ohio , And there not that many flies and have not seen one mosquito so far , A few lightning bugs but nothing like naromal pretty strange .

Not seen a grasshopper or the foliage being eaten by critters I can sit outside and nothing is dive bombing my wine just find it strange I'm usually chasing flies like crazy out of the house .

There all down here in Texas.

Nope those are from Mexico

Put in OP

Yea, it doesn't seem as bad, I was watering the plants on the back porch in the early evening, and usually get eaten up here.

Perhaps George and Klaus are hoarding the insects, and when we are forced to abandon wheat, corn, beans, pigs, cows, fish, and fowl. They will have cornered the market on bug burgers.

Either that or the reptilian humanoid race living underground is now among us feasting a way, wondering what the spiders and bats will eat.

We’ve got tons of insects here. Had a big yellow asshole fly into the house the other night. I very politely and carefully showed him the door.

Last year there didn't seem to be many pollinators in our garden.....They're back. Along with wasps building nests underneath the portico and Beautiful dragon flies and damsel flies at the pond; they look like little jewels skimming over the water.

originally posted by: olaru12
Last year there didn't seem to be many pollinators in our garden.....They're back. Along with wasps building nests underneath the portico and Beautify dragon flies and damsel flies at the pond; they look like little jewels skimming over the water.

Not seen any Carpenter Bees this year and My Wife usually looks like a pin cushion from Mosquitoes by this time .

The Mosquito thing is what's really making me scratch my head , It's good but maybe not so for the bats .

I was just thinking the other night when outside, haven't seen one mosquito this year yet!
No ladybugs, either. But plenty of lightning bugs.
I wondered if these things go in cycles, or what's going on.
The weather has gone wild with horrific thunderstorms and downpours, the heat and humidity is overwhelming in NJ, and now this thing with the bugs.

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

We still have bugs.
All shapes and sizes.
Birds, too!!!!

There's no shortage here in Kentucky.

Gnats, flies, mosquitos, politicians....we got all the useless blood suckers we can stand.

a reply to: olaru12

Love dragonflies...we see them pretty regularly.

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

Nope, there's no shortage of insects here in east Texas.

I even saw fire flies for the first time in 20 years or so. Though I was in Virginia at the time.

originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
a reply to: Ravenwatcher

We still have bugs.
All shapes and sizes.
Birds, too!!!!

We got Sparrows and Robins a few Cardinals and occasional Blue jay raiding the bird feeders .

But the biting bugs are not around .

Are you in city limits? If so your town likely fogs at night. Plenty of bugs in the country and rural interstates here in Arkansas.

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Ravenwatcher

Nope, there's no shortage of insects here in east Texas.

I even saw fire flies for the first time in 20 years or so. Though I was in Virginia at the time.

I lived in Texas it's its own planet lol . I'm curious if it's a city thing were the 5g towers are or if the vaccines in more populated condensed areas has anything to do with certain locations

I know 5G is a reach ..........

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

Has it rained by you? All those places with standing water not around to breed skeeters??

originally posted by: Jason79
Are you in city limits? If so your town likely fogs at night. Plenty of bugs in the country and rural interstates here in Arkansas.

Our city is surrounded by Cornfields but only has a pop of 4000 so not much fogging unless the farmers got some new pesticide . Still doesn't explain lack of mosquitoes

originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
a reply to: Ravenwatcher

Has it rained by you? All those places with standing water not around to breed skeeters??

Rained plenty so far humidity also maybe we are just getting lucky this year or it's something going on in our area not even hearing the crickets at night .

In ALabama they are even worse than usual with all the rain.