That's a great image! There were no burnets here at all about three years ago because of the previous hot summer. They did recover the following year, but 2025 seems to have done for everything apart from butterflies and bees. Here in the South East, we had a record-breaking drought...
Oh no! Up north they're thriving... so the surverys suggest at least 💛💚
That's what I'm seeing on the FB UK insects group. This year I've seen no weevils, robberflies, great pied hoverflies, hornet hoverflies, burnet moths, flower crab spiders, javelin wasps, longhorn beetles, malachite beetles, orb weavers, mayflies or yellow dung flies. It's been the worst year ever 😢
😲oh crikey! Ill check with our ecologists what they're seeing up here 😬
The FB people up North seem to be having a normal, or good year. We had the wettest end of winter ever, followed by a two month drought and then four heatwaves. I'm sure bugs will bounce back next year, but not so much if this happens every five years or so, which is what they are saying 😟