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peggysue2

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8. Strange, no?

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:23 AM

Jul 18

I have bunnies, everywhere. The population in my neck of the woods in Delaware has had a population explosion. I managed to get rid of my family of ground hogs (put up a new shed last fall on a concrete slab), so they moved on to sweeter pastures.

But the bunnies? They're having a great time teasing my dogs.

I have not seen butterflies this season and very few lightening bugs. One of the few benefits of living in Tennessee was the butterfly, hummingbird and lightening bug displays. My backyard magnolia looked magical throughout the month of July, as if it had been draped in Christmas (lightening bug) lights.

The world of pesticides and climate change seems to be catching up.

Fewer bees this year, too.

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No butterflies this year [View all] cyclonefence Jul 18 OP

... SheltieLover Jul 18 #1

Don't Rebl2 Jul 18 #2

I've got a lot of perennial coneflowers cyclonefence Jul 18 #5

butterflies Maninacan Jul 18 #3

Good to hear cyclonefence Jul 18 #4

No June bugs, some butterflies and only solitary bees. Ellipsis Jul 18 #6

Strange, no? peggysue2 Jul 18 #8

We have a hive of bumblebees under Bettie Jul 18 #11

I've seen exactly one Monarch butterfly Arger68 Jul 18 #7

It is alarmingly sad dugog55 Jul 18 #10

I used to have to wash my Arger68 Jul 18 #16

We're hatching Monarchs in our living room, as always. We've released at least 10 so far. Greybnk48 Jul 18 #9

Not many in Detroit. Kid Berwyn Jul 18 #12

We used to have goldfinches galore, none this year. cyclonefence Jul 18 #19

I've spent the past 15 yr turning my 1.5 acre yard into native prairie and woodland NickB79 Jul 18 #13

Same observation here. StarryNite Jul 18 #14

Not a lot of butterflies, but spiders, toads, fire ants JCMach1 Jul 18 #15

we have a lot of butterflies, bees WhiteTara Jul 18 #17

I've noticed that too in southern New Hampshire. I've seen a couple, but not like in past summers. There aren't Vinca Jul 18 #18

Sad, where do you live? lark Jul 18 #20

We noticed that here in south-central New Mexico, too duhneece Jul 18 #21

SE PA cyclonefence Jul 18 #23

Yes, we are in the 6th mass extinction Nigrum Cattus Jul 18 #22

I haven't seen... GiqueCee Jul 18 #24