It has been months and months of overcast, grey drizzle. At least, it has felt that way. When the sky cleared, it was usually while I was at work. This weekend, things finally fell in place. The forecast promised sun and spring warmth, and I didn't have to work.
I loaded up the car, and set off half past five in the morning, which is inhumanely early for a nightowl such as myself, but I wanted to catch the sunrise and I had a ways to go before reaching the Seven Year Lakes in Frederikshåb Plantage.
The Seven-Year Lakes got their name because they are not always there. The lakes appear and disappear with the height of the groundwater. The groundwater table has its own "hills and valleys", and therefore the Seven-Year Lakes are quite unpredictable.
Frederiks Hopeless Plantation was the name of the forest by the locals for many decades, because it took almost 100 years to turn a small piece of Randbøl Hede into a forest. The idea was to stop the sand drift. In the 1600s most of the forests in Denmark had been felled and the agricultural land was overused.
... Show more...It has been months and months of overcast, grey drizzle. At least, it has felt that way. When the sky cleared, it was usually while I was at work. This weekend, things finally fell in place. The forecast promised sun and spring warmth, and I didn't have to work.
I loaded up the car, and set off half past five in the morning, which is inhumanely early for a nightowl such as myself, but I wanted to catch the sunrise and I had a ways to go before reaching the Seven Year Lakes in Frederikshåb Plantage.
The Seven-Year Lakes got their name because they are not always there. The lakes appear and disappear with the height of the groundwater. The groundwater table has its own "hills and valleys", and therefore the Seven-Year Lakes are quite unpredictable.
Frederiks Hopeless Plantation was the name of the forest by the locals for many decades, because it took almost 100 years to turn a small piece of Randbøl Hede into a forest. The idea was to stop the sand drift. In the 1600s most of the forests in Denmark had been felled and the agricultural land was overused. Frederikshåb Plantation is an example of the fight against sand drift. Work started in 1804, when Scots pine and birch were sown. Dikes were built, which created a bit of shelter for the plants. Growing conditions were harsh with sand drift, frost, drought and pests. Today it's a beautiful and varied forest with a relatively rich wildlife.
#Birding #Birds #Birdwatching #Ornithology #Forest #WildlifePhotography #iNaturalist #Wildlife #Nature #Lakes
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in reply to Matej Lexa • • •IDK anything about How radio noise interplays ~ will you please explain This, a little?
Matej Lexa
in reply to Cindy • • •pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/319491…
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure of Western Honey Bees - PubMed
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in reply to Matej Lexa • • •Thank You, I will check it out😊
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in reply to 📄 Mehdi.doc • • •Not all of my methods do, my other method is counting how many insects I can tenderly kiss on the forehead and offer a little snack to but it's much more time consuming
Galad
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The horrible thing is that similar declines are seen in protected areas with minimal interference from direct human activity like pollutants.
Pesticides definitely don't help, but this is driven by climate change. Many insects and other life are evolved to fit in a very specific environmental niche, when the timing of seasons and weather patterns gets messed up it throws the life cycle of these insects into chaos. Like when a tree blooms too early and gets killed by frost
Vee
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in reply to Vee • • •“for two hours each evening, the site got power and a 25-watt bulb flickered on above the porch. Out of the forest darkness, a tornado of #insects would flock to its glow, spinning and dancing before the light. Lit up, the side of the house would be “absolutely plastered with moths – tens of thousands of them”, #DanielJanzen says. [The walls would be] absolutely plastered with moths – tens of thousands of them… Inspired, he decided to erect a sheet for a light trap with a camera – a common way to document flying insect numbers and diversity. In that first photograph, taken in 1978, the lit-up sheet is so thickly studded with moths that in places the fabric is barely visible, transformed into what looks like densely patterned, crawling wallpaper.
Scientists identified an astonishing 3,000 species from that light trap, and the trajectory of Janzen’s career was transformed, from the study of seeds to a lifetime s
... Show more...“for two hours each evening, the site got power and a 25-watt bulb flickered on above the porch. Out of the forest darkness, a tornado of #insects would flock to its glow, spinning and dancing before the light. Lit up, the side of the house would be “absolutely plastered with moths – tens of thousands of them”, #DanielJanzen says. [The walls would be] absolutely plastered with moths – tens of thousands of them… Inspired, he decided to erect a sheet for a light trap with a camera – a common way to document flying insect numbers and diversity. In that first photograph, taken in 1978, the lit-up sheet is so thickly studded with moths that in places the fabric is barely visible, transformed into what looks like densely patterned, crawling wallpaper.
Scientists identified an astonishing 3,000 species from that light trap, and the trajectory of Janzen’s career was transformed, from the study of seeds to a lifetime specialising in the forest’s barely documented populations of caterpillars and moths.
Now 86, Janzen still works in the same research hut in the #Guanacaste (Costa Rica) conservation area, alongside his longtime collaborator, spouse and fellow ecologist, #WinnieHallwachs. But in the forest that surrounds them, something has changed. Trees that once crawled with insects lie uncannily still.”
#ClimateEmergency <theguardian.com/environment/20…>
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
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in reply to KanaMauna • • •Takiro 🎨
in reply to KanaMauna • • •Exactly this. When I was a kid and travelled with my parents the family car's front was covered in bugs. Now, 30 years later on my own car it's barely worth mentioning. Everyone can see it for themselves, if they want, but most don't.
Vee
in reply to Takiro 🎨 • • •an actual bus
in reply to Vee • • •maybe the trap from 1989 caught all the insects
Seriously though, I can think of many causes for this but I'll share one that has not yet been mentioned here, artificial light. There's so much of it and flying insects b-line for it whenever they see it, that *has* to mess with their life cycle over time.
Vee
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in reply to Vee • • •riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/inse…
@riffreporter
Insektensterben: Wie steht es fünf Jahre nach der Krefelder Studie um die Insekten?
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in reply to horstworst • • •François @Jura
in reply to Vee • • •I bought a piece of land (2000 sq. m). I plan to build a small wooden cottage on it (50 sq. m.) the rest will be filled with trees and flowers for insects and birds.
I also encourage everybody to support rewilding groups. For example, Randal Plunkett and he is the 21st Baron of Dunsany, is a metal head, horor movie director and feminist engaged in rewilding. An original guy worth promoting.
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I found this article interesting -
Guerilla seed bombing -
wildseedproject.net/blog/nativ…
Native Seed Balls – Dispersing Seeds with Guerilla Action
Heather McCargo (Wild Seed Project)notsoloud
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in reply to cwicseolfor (has moved!) • • •@cwicseolfor could not agree more...
besides... Maybe it's positive thinking, but I live in the middle of the EU and I feel like hearing more birds then 5 years before, and I defintivly have to wipe my windscreen more often.
Glitzersachen
in reply to cwicseolfor (has moved!) • • •@cwicseolfor @RomanVilgut
It's not patchy and localized. theguardian.com/environment/20…
It's world-wide.
Let me add a bit of technical jargon here: We are fucked.
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
Tess McClure (The Guardian)cwicseolfor (has moved!)
in reply to Glitzersachen • • •@glitzersachen @RomanVilgut My point was to clarify the mistaken position of others in contrast to mine and the data, it’s not my point of view. But I don’t think the fucked rhetoric helps much. Realizing there’s a huge problem with huge fallout is only useful to the extent it elucidates what to do next.
So my suggestion - check out and donate to Xerces Society. Leave your leaves and grass clippings. Plant natives.
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in reply to Vee • • •Luc, Créole
in reply to Vee • • •"If you trap insects year after year, don't be suprised if there are fewer and fewer of them !"
(joking, of course, that's very worrying indeed)
Vee
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in reply to Yora • • •Cindy
in reply to Vee • • •2 things I immediately think of are: (1) ever worsening #AirQuality thru such factors as industry pollutants, vehicle emissions & common environment toxins like air fresheners, hairspray & spray perfumes; (2) widespread use of #Pesticides in modern day farming to feed the masses.
🌏 has been dying a slow death from these 2 things alone ~ Parts of 🌏 [may] recover very slowly over time, but Most of it's once upon a time Purity CANNOT.
Vee
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in reply to Susan Ville • • •Joost Rekveld
in reply to Vee • • •there was a terrifying article in The Guardian a few days ago about the same phenomenon in Costa Rica:
“we’re talking about nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime. That is absolutely catastrophic.”
theguardian.com/environment/20…
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
Tess McClure (The Guardian)Vee
in reply to Joost Rekveld • • •goebbe
in reply to Vee • • •It seems to me that nobody really understands why this is happening. Al I read is vague speculation.
If it was extensive agriculture - remote areas should hardly be affected.
If it was climate change - we would expect a decrease in certain areas and an increase in other areas.
Horschtel
in reply to Vee • • •If we don't, we will become extinct because there will be no more #insects to pollinate #flowers
Cindy
in reply to Horschtel • • •I'm unclear why a 22 year recovery time is mentioned specifically for this, but I agree with the rest of your comments.
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in reply to Vee • • •That’s a great picture, where did you find it? I found this research article but it just has boring graphs 😴🙃🫣
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti…
More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
journals.plos.orgEde
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We have disrupted so many delicate ecosystems with our overwrought civilization, with its excessive consumption and pollution, and acquisitiveness.
Studies thus far have barely begun to scratch the surface of our environmental impact, as Science and media are both beholden to capitalism, the very root of the problem.
paper.wf/penumbrage/clean-gree…
Vee
Unknown parent • • •@WellsiteGeo @RomanVilgut
I watched a documentary where they had compelling evidence that it's so harmful to humans that it caused everything from cancer(s) to autism (because of the generation of women -GenX- who all of a sudden started having insane numbers of autistic dx)...so it's nt 'just' the insects and animals... it's also us.
Vee
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Moratorium Autobahn A565
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in reply to Vee • • •there are obvious correllations: population growth, urban expansion, vehicles on the road... it has been shown that insects will not mate as often in the presence of light &/ noise pollution.
Another easy analogous case is the protection of areas of sea by satellites followed by rapid reinstatement of populations & biodiversity in those areas.
LED street lights are causing an huge upsurge in the spread of light pollution.
Electric cars increase road-side tire pollutants
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in reply to Pete • • •AppleWoi
in reply to Vee • • •@98Percent
Maybe even ignorant people will get confronted with the consequences, if they like it or not.
Nature doesn't discuss, barter or negotiate.
Belittlement had never changed anything for better.
Pete
in reply to AppleWoi • • •Those with the least responsibility for the coming disaster are the ones that will suffer most.
I almost wonder if that is the plan?
AppleWoi
in reply to Pete • • •@98Percent
We are sooo far 🤏🏻 away from understanding the complex problems and enabling already existing solutions to fix it.
At least most of the thinking part of humanity which ist not compromised by retarded rightwing propaganda or fossil fuel agents.
If not, nature will fix it.
Vee
in reply to AppleWoi • • •@AppleWoi @98Percent
Remember what happened during Covid? When all humans were grounded?...
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
in reply to Vee • • •Driving in southeast Texas during love bug season would mean having to pull over to wash your windshield pretty often.
I don’t even remember the last time I hit a bug with my car.
AppleWoi
in reply to rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually • • •Bc nowadays there are more cars than bugs.
Whitney Loblaw
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in reply to Vee • • •However, there's definitely been a massive drop in insect populations across a lot of the world over the last 30 years.
Vee
in reply to NKT • • •Vee
in reply to Whitney Loblaw • • •AppleWoi
in reply to Vee • • •And there's a reason for it.
It's because farmers and their providers of insectizides are still allowed to poison our crops, lands and nature.
In China workers are forced to pollinate their fruit trees with brushes because there were no insects left after years of poisoning going on. And tehy're not coming back.
We are literally about to make the same mistakes due to grief, profits and inhumanity.
Vee
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Unknown parent • • •Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов
in reply to Vee • • •I counted POLLINATION mentioned only twice in the whole thread, so here's a third time.
Pollination is a huge issue.
Vee
in reply to Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов • • •feld
in reply to Vee • • •we've lost 75% in like 3 decades, it's crazy
but hey, no more bug splatter on my windshield
Vee
in reply to feld • • •Horst
in reply to Vee • • •ich kenne noch die verklebten Windschutzscheiben, als wir 1985 zum Monsters of Rock fuhren. Alle 100 km einmal stehen bleiben, um die Windschutzscheiben zu reinigen ...
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I still remember the sticky windscreens when we drove to the Monsters of Rock in 1985. Stopping once every 100 km to clean the windscreen ...
#zivilisationskrise #klimakrise #climateCrises
Vee
in reply to Horst • • •o/1MS\o ⌨️🐧 | #WeAreNatenom
in reply to Vee • • •I remember a cycling tour in the evening probably 30 years ago.
After that, a lot of flying insects have been found on my front.
Today I can't say, that there are much flying insects after a tour on my front.
And I think, I have more place available for collecting today.
cohan
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