to report Mother Nature for neglect this year.

[CarefullEugene]

The local beekeppers are comlaining about the lack of honey this year.
There have been very few wild flowers in my garden , flowering this summer.
Forty bats flew in an open window and did circuits round the living room last night - never happened before.

Has nature gone crazy this year, any two-headed calves out there or other potents?

Watch out for the locusts!

You need a human sacrifice - that'll help

I seem to have an above average amount of spiders coming into my house at the moment.

Could you add that to your complaint please?

Is that a joke about the bats? If not you should proabaly get a priest and some holy water or something....

Slugs - loads and loads of slugs. What is their purpose anyway and quite honestly do we need so many of the vile things

You know those big orange/gold slugs that have come from espana? They are HUGE! Yikes!
Spiders always come into houses in harvesting season so they can hang on to all 8 spindly legs.
I am more upset at Mother Nature's neglect of not giving us a 'proper' summer

It's not just you!

Mother nature is out to get me this year. We don't live in the country or anything but seem to be over run this year!

1st there was a bat in our loft but he kindly left on his own - he was a noisy bugger!

Then we opened the loft one day to get the suitcases out for holiday and a bloody bird flew out and round the house until we manage to chase him out the door.
I walked into the living room one day a few months back to watch as 2 birds come flying out the chimney and both get killed by my 2 dogs (not their fault really).

The chimney is now blocked!

I agree with the spider thing - we had 2 massive ones in our living room yesterday and they run across the floor in the evening when the lights are dimmed - eugh, eugh.

I was always scared of spiders but (I swear on my life this happened) I went into the kitchen one evening last year to get a drink, i felt something on my head, i have quite a lot of long, dark hair and casually scratched my head and carried on, but then i saw something and looked up to see a MASSIVE spider crawling down my forehead. I fucking screamed my head off and hit myself / batted at my face until i saw it hit the floor. I'm sure this would have been hilarious to watch if it wasn't happening to me.

I am still not over this. It was horrific.

We have had TONS of bees this year in our garden, never seen so many!

Yes, I agree. We farm and it has been a terrible year.

As well as the farming being not good we have virtually no fruit, a pear tree that was overloaded last year does not have a single pear this year, no plums to make jam either.

Not seen a two headed calf yet but my dad once had one born without a tail. Most odd.

The slugs are because of the lack of hedgehogs.

The only thing I've noticed is the poor quality of potatoes.

Well what's happpened to the hedgehogs then? If slugs are their chosen diet they are certainly not suffering from starvation - have they all died of over eating?

The slugs are definitely out in force this year.

Though they need to stop hanging around outside our back door

Just googled a load of stuff if anyone is interested. Hedgehog numbers have plummetted from 50million in 1950 to 1.5million today.

A possible reason is Lungworm, a parasite carried by slugs, which attacks their lungs. Lungworm can affect cats and dogs.

The slug invasion is being perpetuated by the warm, wet weather and the invasion of a slug known as the Spanish Stealth slug, it is a ruthless eater/reproducer and harder to kill, it is interbreeding with british slugs and exacerbating the problem.

B***d slugs :(

Mother Nature is definitely buggring about with the crops.
really poor potato crop, runner beans OK. Corn is awful, blackberries good.

Our crab apple tree is shedding it's leaves and has also come back into flower!

Off to harumph out of the window.

so where can I get some hedgehogs ? I think I need at least 2 families of them

Nooooooooo, don't feed the slugs to the hedgehogs. The slugs are full of hedgehog killing parasites.

T'is how the slugs are taking control. Salt the bastards.

Something strange is happening this year. We had two huge swarms of bees flying round our house this summer. The first time we were out in the garden and had to run for cover when we saw the black bee cloud approaching. And there was a huge nest of ground bees in the garden as well. Luckily the council sorted out collection of them. I've never seen so many bees before.

Oh and my pear tree is dying. Why? Its quite old and every year it gives hundreds of pears. This year, nothing. Not one single pear.

most of the fruit trees in our garden have not got any fruit on them at all this year, and the conker tree is conkerless too...

We've got an apple tree and that has still got lots of apples. My mums got a few established apple trees and they haven't had any apples on them this year though.

I've got slugs dancing on my rugs every night, and we ain't got no hedgehogs in south London!

I keep finding slug trails on my baby's jumperoo and the little rug underneath. I would cover the whole thing in salt it ds didn't like to lick the thing so much