To be worried that I haven’t seen any insects.

[Viscoelasticity]

I live in the Welsh countryside. It’s 11pm and I’ve been sitting in my living room with two windows wide open and the lamps on for the past 4 hours. There are no insects in my house. No moths or daddy long legs fluttering around my lampshades. Where are they?

I have seen no butterflies this year. No ladybirds. No wasps. No ants. About 3 bumble bees, and one earwig. Very few spiders.

I never thought I’d miss insects, but I do, and I am worried. What will the birds and the frogs eat? Nature is dying 😢

I'm always baffled by people trying to deny the evidence of climate change. It's not catastrophising, it's our reality. An environmentalist on Twitter/X claims we're a decade or two away from the collapse of the food chain.