Post AZ2OFz7faG82dk5XTU by crash_course@todon.eu
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 (DIR) Post #AZ2OFxW3YcRnenTzCy by Adam_Cadmon1@mastodon.online
       2023-08-23T15:30:37Z
       
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       I was just telling someone that I haven't seen many fireflies this summer. They would light up the evenings in summers past
       
 (DIR) Post #AZ2OFyHCjKA411XdhI by shuttersparks@qoto.org
       2023-08-23T16:02:22Z
       
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       @Adam_Cadmon1 Yes, fireflies are fewer and fewer each year here in North Central West Virginia. 15 years ago, they were plentiful. I used to take time-exposure photos of them at twilight.Now they are a rarity. Once in a while I'll see a single one.All insects are down, actually. There used to be lots of Japanese stink bugs. Not anymore. I take walks in the evening and return without a single mosquito bite. They used to eat me alive. The lack of bites is a plus but it's wrong.There used to be little flocks of chimney swifts zooming around at all hours of the day. You could always see them and hear them twittering as they fed on insects aloft. Their constant background twittering is now replaced by silence. The disappearance happened this year. They were plentiful a few months ago.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZ2OFz7faG82dk5XTU by crash_course@todon.eu
       2023-08-23T16:33:30Z
       
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       @shuttersparks @Adam_Cadmon1 Very sad and a bad omen.Any idea why they disappeared over the last months?
       
 (DIR) Post #AZ2OFzgPV5uyNULHcm by shuttersparks@qoto.org
       2023-08-23T17:18:07Z
       
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       @crash_course @Adam_Cadmon1 I assume you mean the chimney swifts. I don't have a proven reason but assume it's the lack of insects. Chimney swifts love to fly. They fly all day long snatching insects out of the air. Since they're most common and active (or used to be) in the late afternoon and twilight a lot of people around here think they're bats.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZ2OHbAzaSCkx0PbXM by ML2@akkoma.sandhill.social
       2023-08-23T23:27:11.012981Z
       
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       @Adam_Cadmon1 In upstate NY I've seen a shit-ton of them. We've also had a wet summer