Zoomers wouldn't know any better, but 20+ years ago, when you would drive around outside in the summer you'd get bugs smashed all over your windshield. No joke. It happened all the time
Now, it almost never happens. That's because insect populations have dropped considerably. Probably this is due to chemicals released in the water, like birth control estrogen, plastics, and pesticides.
We need the bugs to pollinate plants.
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you should have seen the swarms of bugs back in the 80's and 90's, cars covered in bugsplat!
As a kid in the 1970s I remember our backyard crawling with insects. Now there is much much less. The earth is slowly dying. There are too many people on the earth.
not mosquitos though. fuck them.
Nah, humanity was a mistake.
Time for another ecological reset.
We are already dead, we just don't know it yet
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You wont even have ze bugs to eat.
Try having a garden, you'll see more kinds of bugs than you knew existed.
Is this really the case in the US?
Aus is still swarming with insects.
I went on a 2000 mile road trip this summer and didnt have to clean off a single bug.
I remember doing a 200 mile road trip as a kid and the car be splattered with bugs half way.
Ze bugs are safe in ze farm
You vill eat zem soon
So....we won't be able to eat ze bugs since there wont be any of them left...
Mosquitos are pollinators, and animals feed of them, like bats. I also haven't seen bats in a long while.
It's not the amount of people, it's all the chemicals we use to kill them.
We use more pesticides now.
We will sort it out
And you vill be HAPPY
I'd planted about 800sq/ft of buckwheat and I've seen bees and wasps in numbers I'd not seen since I was a kid.
Grow some flowers fellow anons. They're good for you and your local ecosystem.
> but 20+ years ago, when you would drive around outside in the summer you'd get bugs smashed all over your windshield
That still happens, it's just on sidewalks though. Cars mass killing bugs on roads has allowed the bugs that only stay on sidewalks to procreate instead.
t. ride my bike everywhere and am getting fucking fed up with bugs constantly going up my nose, into my eyes, and down my throat.
Yep, and EMF waves too.
This is interesting.. yea I hadn't noticed..
However what I have noticed - there are far fewer birds than there used to be.. you used to see them everywhere, and now when you do see or hear them they are tiny.. haven't seen a big black crow or raven in maybe a decade.. something's definitely going on and nobody's talking about it..
I don't even spray OFF when walking in the woods anymore. We really did kill off most of the insects in 20 years
But that’s the thing tho. Mosquitos and tick populations are up, while all other bugs seem to be down. No more bees, no more flies all over your car, no more June bugs by the pool, no more fire flys at night. We don’t even see bats at our cottage anymore.
Yet tick populations are booming. It’s crazy how much has changed in the last 20 years. When I grew up in the 90s we never worried about ticks while we were out playing. Hijacking OPs thread to mention how having to de groom your dog after a walk in the park never used to be a thing. Now every time you go out 6 ticks all over. No bugs at the cottage tho. Seems strange?
5G towers actively repel them and birds.
>No joke. It happened all the time
>Now, it almost never happens.
Can confirm. Happened all the time. Maybe not all over the windshield, depending on your area I guess, but a lot more than recent years which is closer to 0.
Zoomer here. You’re pretty retarded for thinking we exist in a vacuum. Anyway, I have also noticed a massive limit in bug population. I read something in like 2014 about how the insect population had dropped by 40% from 1970.
In short, we’re fucked in multiple different ways. I’ve resigned knowing my death will come soon.
Immune system collapse
Holy fuck you retards... They were all killed by windshields.
There isn't too many people, there's too many problems.
bird population has decreased by nearly 1/3 since 1970
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>noo dont generalize
This is only one of the reasons we think you are retarded.
This is the truth
t. like to take walks and there's always parts of the sidewalk swarming with bugs
used to have 100's of ladybugs on my house the entire summer growing up early 2000's
now i'll be lucky to see 10 in a whole year and they are usually dead
and no they aren't those faggot asian beetles
>there are far fewer birds than there used to be
birds aren't real anymore champ
the government replaced them with surveillance drones
Trips checked
But seriously I haven’t seen fireflies in my summer vacation spot for almost a decade now. It’s not just them but I don’t see any June beetles anywhere either. Even mosquitos seem to be in decline compared to just 4 years ago. What’s going on?
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I had multiple trees with no fruit this year. Has never happened before.
I wonder if this is a big part of it, "gardens" are far less of a thing than they use to be, lots of people just have lawn, some even have fake lawn, the fuck huge gardens of my childhood are definitely a thing of the past as people opt for low or no maintenance alternatives.
champ you simply weren't alive when the bugs were all over the windshield when driving to the store. i kind of remember it as a kid, by the time i became old enough to drive it basically never happened.
>noooo the entire global generation of zoomers is the enemy!!!!
You fell for the psyop. Congratulations, retard. I guarantee I hate globohomo more than you.
place your tongue on the roof of your mouth, stops them going down your throat so easily.
I saw a bat the other day, but it's nothing like what it was 10 years ago. Used to be 6 a night, now it's once every other month.
I live in a village and this year almost no mosquitos. I am not complaining.
Do you know those brown mudslimes motherfuckers that invades your garden?? Those fuckers are everywhere... SNAILS ARE GONE.
High IQ post, thank you based Ford
Mind blowed
Get out of the city faggots. My windshield is 50% bugs after a week
Sure, brainlet. I lived in the literal fucking swamps of Louisiana. Bugs were EVERYWHERE when I was a kid.
Cell towers disorientate the birds so their migration is fucked and they kill off insects.
Studies have already proven cell phones and towers can cause colony collapse in as little as 7 days with bees.
Good luck getting rid of them because the own the land and governments
Your stupid fucking anecdote definitely proves the planet is dying. There definitely aren't trillions of bugs under you this very moment. The insect population is in the quintillions you fucking retard
we used to have these fuckers all over the front porch like 1 or 2 weeks out of the year. now, it never happens.
actually, fuck they were EVERYWHERE for like a week out of the year, then they all died and you had to sweep that shit
i never see them anymore
I drove to my cottage a few weeks ago and noticed my grill was surprisingly bug-free. OP is on to something
we are approaching solar maxima. the energy blast local cycle is at its height. in 5 years they will be swarming
what a load of shit
I drive for a living and my truck gets caked in bugs
if you have a lot of fruit trees maybe try getting your own bee hive going. they don't require that much maintenance
why are you so offended at being told that you're younger than a lot of people on here? it's not your fault, buddy
motherfucker, I am in central florida rn for a business trip and these fucking things are EVERYWHRE
dumb fuck bugs too busy fucking insteading of paying attention to where they are flying, had to swat off like a hundred of these damn things today
Checked and naturepilled
Texfag here , didn't notice many mosquitoes this summer as well . Something's not right
I'm aware of the psyop and preach against it, but this doesn't mean zoomers aren't retarded. These aren't mutually exclusive concepts.
I called you a retard because you said something retarded, not because you are a zoomer.
I literally had these all over my porch and back yard all summer. A lot of insects have strange cycles. There are wild flowers that only grow out in my area every 3 or 4 years but I don't think the plants are dying every time they go away. Why is everyone in this thread so stupid?
You make generalizations about an entire group of people and even down to the individual level. It’s enough to make anyone pissed off when they read it 40,000 times a month.
MO fucker here.
Bugs still everywhere.
You're comparing a daily driver situation and pov to driving for a living. Of course you're noticeably going to have more bugs on your windshield doing that.
Bugs are disgusting fuck them
this!
>living with grandmother after my grandfather passed
>planted flowers all over her house because she loved flowers
>see bees, hummingbirds and even dragon flies and frogs
>hand seen any of those in many years
>wanted her last few years to be filled with as much joy as possible
>she dies
>baby boomer uncle gets house
>he rips out all the flowers I planted and saturates the ground with herbicides and pesticides
>nothing but mulch and grass there now
>all the frogs, birds and bees gone
it's all so depressing
Post dick with a caterpillar on it
What did I say that was retarded? The part where I said we aren’t all stupid or enemies? Or the part where I agreed with OP? How am I wrong on either part?
>You make generalizations about an entire group of people
champ this generalization was warranted because it's literally contingent upon you being alive at a certain period of time
It's just that the cars kept hitting them all until they were gone
do you remember those blue caterpillars
that used to be everywhere in the summer?
I'm stuck in the dry lands. Fucking spiders are all over and the ants too. I saw this black tarantula half the size of my foot, too many damn bugs here
But the swarms of hummingbirds looked amazing, until one of them smacked me in the face.
>I literally had these all over my porch and back yard all summer
do you live in an area with a lot of agriculture?
there is a story on here of an older man (from the silent or greatest generation) who planted a tree and cared for it for decades. When he finally died, his boomer son inherited the house and got the tree cut down immediately
So because I was born at a certain period of time I can’t have experienced a yard full of bugs? Do you see the gap in logic there? Guess what, I also remember the days before the iPhone, fast speed internet, social media, and chem trail haze. My generation is retarded but you hold a strange fixation on gatekeeping past experiences just because we’ve inherited a doomed planet.
5G kills insects if they cross the beams
>You’re pretty retarded for thinking we exist in a vacuum
It's well achshullyism. Not all x are yism. It's retarded because it's an argument against pattern recognition. Generalizations aren't bad, they're helpful, and the sooner you stop having a victim complex about being part of a young and still retarded generation the better. Don't take offense at stuff that is not aimed at you personally.
god damn you zoomers are insufferable
Ticks are the Jews of bugs. What are we? Bees?
I had a beautiful Mimosa tree I planted, I loved that thing and so did my grandmother. before I could even move out of the house, he was out there cutting it down with a big damn smile on his face.
>5G kills insects if they cross the beams
I know you're memeing, but even the wifi in you're house kills plants and insects, 5G absolutely devastates insects.