My wife pointed something out to me tonight whilst we were in the garden (night time here in the UK, but very hot).
Where are all the bugs?
The living room light was left on and all the windows were open, and when we went back in there was a single moth flying round a bulb, that was it. Back in the eighties we would have been fighting off a swarm of thunderbugs, moths, flies and daddy-longlegs, but toight...zip...nada.
Anyone else notice anything?
I'm in the midwest USA close to lake Erie. First year no yellow jackets in the mulch bed, one small wasp nest out back in a bin. I've seen one tiny butterfly, a couple of moths, no dragonflies or damselflies. No mosquitoes (and I'm a magnet for them). Not nearly as many lightning bugs as previous years. Good amount of regular flies and plenty of tiny ants, not so much the bigger ones, though. As much as I don't mind not being 'bugged', it is kind of scary.