Our driveway went past their garage, we were on a battle axe block, I think you call them flag blocks. I walked the 20 yards to the house and grabbed the camera. I swear I'm not a pervert.
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Our driveway went past their garage, we were on a battle axe block, I think you call them flag blocks. I walked the 20 yards to the house and grabbed the camera. I swear I'm not a pervert.
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I hope you find the little summary of insects interesting. I didn't intend for it to take over your thread and hope it didn't.
Very interesting and helpful, thanks.
That might be a little less believable if all the insect pictures were on bathroom or bedroom windows, but garage windows should be safe.
I used to use my parents carport as a "natural" insect trap. It had a bank of windows on the north side that anything that flew into the carport would fly toward and get trapped. I actually found the occasional rare or uncommon species that way. Houselights are another good place to bring in the insects and sometimes you get something really interesting to fly in.
I think I messed something up while trying to quote on here.
Yes and I eventually fixed it for you lol
We usually get a lot of what we call Christmas Beetles at this time of year, they're iridescent and scarabs I think, I haven't seen one this year and a mate was telling me there was an article in the paper about their absence. I meant to chase it up but forgot.
Where have all the Christmas beetles gone?
I think I found the article but it doesn't answer the question.
I think I found the article but it doesn't answer the question.
Scarabs in the genus Anoplognathus. Large and pretty. Interesting. I'm not familiar with their specific plight, but many factors seem to be contributing to a decline in insects in general.
Hopefully, it is only a periodic population reduction, but I fear it is an indicator of the broader climate change that may have much longer-term and deleterious impact.
We used to get giant ones but I haven't seen one since my mid 20's so 30 or so years, they were a health hazard when riding a motorbike. The smaller ones were still common but not this year but I have noticed they go in cycles like cicadas, some years they are far more numerous.
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I've been in museums looking at beetles the size of a Quarter Pounder and hoped that no one on a motorcycle runs into one of those flying about. That would be a heck of a thing.
It would be nice that some of these declines are just cyclical and not part of the larger climate trend. Though, I cannot imagine at this point even cyclical trends are not being impacted.