Insects

[Oma]

Put this in pets and Animals as not sure where it would go .

For the past 3 days I have been trying to catch a huge Brown moth in my bathroom,
Everytime I caught it to put out of the window it managed to wriggle out of my hand and disappear ,
The bathroom is tiny so no idea how it managed to hide ,
Anyway I finally managed to scoop it off the shower curtain while I was in the shower and release it out of the window .

B and myself were talking about it and saying we have seen very few insects this year ,

Bees, Wasps, Butterflies ( seen 1 ) Moths etc even the common fly, never seen a dragon fly/daddy long legs for years

Went to see to cats came home opened sitting room door and low and behold a dragon fly was bashing against the window.
Let it out and commented what a coincidence that was.

My DD has a beautiful Buddleia bush in her garden and even she has seen very few butterflies .

Is it the weather do you think ? Or the environment,
As a child I can remember seeing lots of Butterflies and Dragon flies along with huge moths bashing off the lamp bulbs on a evening.

We do have Ants on the drive.

The only insects I won’t tolerate is Spiders and Earwigs ,
Again in short supply this year.

[Lizzie48]

Oma, today I had a "massive" hornet on my balcony!! I got a brush to get rid of it, it had gone, I hope it was just the one.

We do have a lot of butterflies as there are butterfly bushes down in the park, the same with bees, I see and hear them a lot on my flowering plants.

We also get lots of dragon flies, I have to keep my mouth closed when out on the bike as they often hit me in the face. When I was at DS2 for lunch on Monday there were quite a few in their garden.

[Gemini]

Good grief I can hardly bear to read that description of grabbing hold of a big moth Oma
We have seen less moths for which I am truly grateful.

We have seen a few dragonflies, next door has a pond so we wonder if that is why.

I don't think we have seen the numbers of bees and butterflies as in previous summers. We did have bees nesting in a bird box early this summer however.

[Plantaholic]

I commented a while ago how few honey bees are on the plants and generally very few butterflies, quite worrying

[Nanto2girls]

We have had quite a few butterflies. Just the cabbage white ones.
Had a couple of dragon flies/crane flies, not sure which.
Not seen many bees or flies.
When we were in the the garden this afternoon having a cuppa,a moth flew out of the shed.