This isn't Calgary specific, but does it seem to anyone else like there are fewer butterflies than there used to be? Now that I have a kid of my own, it seems like an especially rare chance to point one out compared to what I remember just 25 years ago...
My Calgary nostalgia grows by the day. Affordable living, still decent jobs. If it wasn’t for those goddam winters and that I have somehow morphed into a PNW hipster guy.
This isn't Calgary specific, but does it seem to anyone else like there are fewer butterflies than there used to be? Now that I have a kid of my own, it seems like an especially rare chance to point one out compared to what I remember just 25 years ago...
Plant more flowering plants, let your dandelions grow a bit. Stop spraying #### on our lawns. One of the same things that are killing the bees.
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There are definitely more rabbits in Calgary now than there used to be. The rabbits are not a native species. They are feral European rabbits that used to be pets. Every year their population grows. It's happening in lots of places in North America. Specifically, Calgary over the last few years:
When I was growing up in the SE we'd have lots of wild hares from Fish Creek Park wander into our neighbourhood. They were much more skittish and would actively hide from people. These rabbits just seem to hang around.
I've been reading over the last few years that insect populations seem to be down quite a lot due to climate change. One of the examples of anecdotal evidence offered (in Britain at least) is that the number of bugs on the windscreen after a road trip is far less. I haven't lived here long enough to know whether that's true in this part of the world but I do seem to recall a lot more splats twenty years ago.
I've been reading over the last few years that insect populations seem to be down quite a lot due to climate change. One of the examples of anecdotal evidence offered (in Britain at least) is that the number of bugs on the windscreen after a road trip is far less. I haven't lived here long enough to know whether that's true in this part of the world but I do seem to recall a lot more splats twenty years ago.
The perversion of agriculture into giant swaths of mono-crops covered religiously in pesticide is likely a bigger issue.
Climate change needs to stop being a catch-all phrase for every man-made plight on the planet.
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I've been reading over the last few years that insect populations seem to be down quite a lot due to climate change. One of the examples of anecdotal evidence offered (in Britain at least) is that the number of bugs on the windscreen after a road trip is far less. I haven't lived here long enough to know whether that's true in this part of the world but I do seem to recall a lot more splats twenty years ago.
I can't remember the last time a saw a grasshopper. My kids have never seen one.
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