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Feels like I’m seeing more than I have in the past decade this summer, even saw some crickets when I haven’t seen them since I was a kid.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ooh haven't seen any of them yet, but loads of those pale yellow butterflies are fluttering about.

[–] ObM 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And every one of them hatched from a happy little lawn grub that ate our lawn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

👍 Fuck lawns. Grassland or gtfo.

Beetles and lepidoptera ftw.

photo of a largeish yellow-brown beetle with fan shaped antennae another photo of the same beetle, held between thumb and forefinger

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

anti lawn aktion

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I had a cricket break into my bathroom somehow. No windows or external walls, somehow got in. Very weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I wish!

Oh wait... Wrong hemisphere

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes. I have seen a lot of grass hoppers, crickets and praying mantises in my garden in the last couple months. And they are not small, very big buggers.

Also heaps of ants, but I think that's normal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's the moisture I reckon, got a lot of crickets in the grass atm and I think it's because they don't have to hide during the day to avoid dehydration.

Fewer spiders but, last year was trapdoor and wolf open season. This year I'm only seeing black house and my loyal banded huntsman colony.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Oh everywhere I look I keep finding tiny white specks that are little baby spiders dangling down. I keep moving them closer to outside as I doubt there’s much to eat indoors.

https://quokk.au/pictrs/image/9df3dcbc-0678-416a-80d7-5f27e347beca.jpeg

Oh and saw this poor one recently, he’s been in the war’s for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Looks like they might have some molts left so maybe they'll heal. I'm in the blue mountains, idk why not many spiders this year. Normally they're everywhere. Not too many wasps actually but quite a few of the spider hunting ones, so maybe that's the lack. I've seen those wasps take on trapdoors and win!

I've been deboomering this lot of land and it's been rewarding seeing life return as all the poisoned crap and ecologically unsuitable plants are replaced.

[–] quinkin 1 points 10 months ago

A consequence of the hot and wet summer I feel, rather than any changes in agricultural practices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

leeches, so many leeches, but fewer of everything else