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oldmic > 9 months ago, 30 Dec 2020

oldmic

NSW

357 posts

30 Dec 2020 9:39pm

Bit random, but I've not seen any Christmas Beetles?

Mark _australia

23526 posts

30 Dec 2020 8:17pm

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dowls said..
Bit random, but I've not seen any Christmas Beetles?

Me neither
but did see one all by itself a few months early. funny season too so - weather?

MarkSSC

QLD

642 posts

31 Dec 2020 6:01am

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dowls said..
Bit random, but I've not seen any Christmas Beetles?

I thought that Volkswagon had stopped making the VW Beetle

powersloshin

NSW

1844 posts

31 Dec 2020 7:38am

they are isolating...

ausbinny

193 posts

31 Dec 2020 3:14pm

I saw one in Queensland - probably came from a NSW hotspot....

gh

NSW

153 posts

31 Dec 2020 7:16pm

You can have the ones stripping our gumtrees. Not as many as previous years though.

remery

3709 posts

31 Dec 2020 4:26pm

Urban sprawl and climate change methinks. Insect numbers are down pretty much across the board and that's going to impact on the furry things that everyone likes.

^^^ Yeah and insecticides - bee loss is very concerning.
About a year or so ago, few of us had not seen a ladybug for a verrrry long time.
Then last summer, a few were seen and at the same time it was a humid crap year for wind, so I surmised it was weather.
I now reckon I was wrong

Waiting4wind

NSW

1871 posts

31 Dec 2020 9:46pm

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remery said..
Urban sprawl and climate change methinks. Insect numbers are down pretty much across the board and that's going to impact on the furry things that everyone likes.

I was reading an article the other day which named urban sprawl as the key reason for the demise of Xmas Beatles.

Mind you having been hit on the face by one doing 25+ knots on the water i don't miss them in that environment, bloody hurt.

olskool

QLD

2459 posts

31 Dec 2020 9:14pm

Been out bush lately SE QLD. Thousands of cicadas n termites emerging from the rain soaked ground. Havnt seen them in such numbers in about 5years. Chopping down trees destroys all the micro climates n food for many animals n insects.
But you can't stop progress.

remery

3709 posts

1 Jan 2021 10:24am

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Mark _australia said..
^^^ Yeah and insecticides - bee loss is very concerning.
About a year or so ago, few of us had not seen a ladybug for a verrrry long time.
Then last summer, a few were seen and at the same time it was a humid crap year for wind, so I surmised it was weather.
I now reckon I was wrong

Lady bugs are interesting, they feed on aphids, so often a good aphid season is followed by large numbers of lady bugs and hover flies. Dry winters in cropping areas often increase aphid populations because it's too dry for aphid-killing fungi and micro-organisms.

sboardcrazy

NSW

8292 posts

1 Jan 2021 1:30pm

You need to use earplugs to walk in the bush around here. The Cicadas are ear splitting! I haven't seen so many in years..

remery

3709 posts

1 Jan 2021 2:41pm

The cicadas around Perth are wimps compared with NSW species, but his year there are hardly any.

olskool

QLD

2459 posts

1 Jan 2021 5:54pm

^ Qld models are up to 100mm long n about 25mm across.

gmitton

1460 posts

1 Jan 2021 6:46pm

Close the borders - that will fix it.

MarkSSC

QLD

642 posts

1 Jan 2021 9:15pm

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remery said..

There are good ladybugs and bad ones. The bad ones have more spots on them.

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