Things/Species that have disappeared

IvaBigWun

What the f#ck ever happened to Earwigs?

The Moldy Gowl

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Ohmigod I thought they were gone and I saw the BIGGEST one in Denmark last week crawling all over my tent. UGH. He was horrible a horrible bastard.

Alice1

Nothing happened to earwigs - unfortunately, they are still alive and well

thelad95

IvaBigWun wrote: »

What the f#ck ever happened to Earwigs?

Emmigrated.

Duck's hoop

IvaBigWun wrote: »

What the f#ck ever happened to Earwigs?

Still around. See them next month. But reduced numbers due to more intensive
agri + pesticides.

IvaBigWun

Deleted User wrote: »

Ohmigod I thought they were gone and I saw the BIGGEST one in Denmark last week crawling all over my tent. UGH. He was horrible a horrible bastard.

Interesting. Maybe they're just gone from our shores?

Frosty McSnowballs

I haven't seen a hairy catapillar since the 90's!

SEPT 23 1989

You dont notice them as much when you are an adult because you are further away from the ground

IvaBigWun

Duck's hoop wrote: »

Still around. See them next month. But reduced numbers due to more intensive
agri + pesticides.

So intensive pesticides = dead Earwigs. Interesting.

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>_>

Duck's hoop

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

I haven't seen a hairy catapillar since the 90's!

Still to be had, but again greatly reduced.

I thought ladybirds were kaput but they've made a comeback this year. Especially the early summer.

Muise...

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

I haven't seen a hairy catapillar since the 90's!

Hairy Mollies! Saw them all over dock leaves in co. Galway last weekend.

insectnerd: that name comes from 'mala' which is the Irish for eyebrow. I like those little frowny fellas.

PizzamanIRL

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

You dont notice them as much when you are an adult because you are further away from the ground

Yeah. Fook science.

Chucken

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

I haven't seen a hairy catapillar since the 90's!

The weekend isn't too far off. You might get lucky

Frosty McSnowballs

Chucken wrote: »

The weekend isn't too far off. You might get lucky

Why, are ya around again? Heh

The Backwards Man

I have a pet earwig called Oliver, I call him O for short.

When I'm asleep and I feel an itch in my ear, I think to myself, 'earwig O again.':rolleyes:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Plenty of earwigs about. You're just not looking in the right places.

cerastes

Just saw an earwig yesterday, first one in a while, Id be suprised if anything like that disappears.
Only seen a few ladybirds, one dead and the other a yellowish one, the latter same day as the earwig.
Ive hardly seen any butterflys, one or two, though so presumably caterpillars are down but Ive hardly ever seen them.

Maybe it was because Id have been out and about when younger, but there always seemed to be more bees and butterflies around, even in the garden, now just the odd bumble bee.

Duck's hoop

Insect and fly life has been greatly reduced in recent years.

Look to your windscreen on a summer's eve after a long drive for anecdotal evidence. Hardly a smudge.

For Forks Sake

Red/Orange coloured frogs?

greedygoblin

Duck's hoop wrote: »

Insect and fly life has been greatly reduced in recent years.

Look to your windscreen on a summer's eve after a long drive for anecdotal evidence. Hardly a smudge.

Twenty plus years ago I remember having to get those sticky fly catcher things to hang from the ceiling in the kitchen during the summer. You don't see those around anymore. No need for them I suppose.

OneOfThem Stumbled

IvaBigWun wrote: »

What the f#ck ever happened to Earwigs?

pffft. You still see one or two around occasionally.

But foghorns. Gone... all gone.

*sniff*

House of Blaze

Frogs though... haven't seen a frog in ireland since I was a kid.

Granted I haven't been looking for them but..

Muise...

OneOfThem Stumbled wrote: »

pffft. You still see one or two around occasionally.

But foghorns. Gone... all gone.

*sniff*

Not gone - just not used unless requested by small craft. Also, ships still use them so you might hear them at sea if there's a good Clannad-video style fog.

greedygoblin

One thing I've noticed a huge decline in (this year especially) is the swallow. There's usually a few nest in our garage every year, but this year it's empty. It could be down to the number of Magpies around though. Those fcukers numbers have exploded recently and they're killing everything else around.

fleet_admiral

I saw white dog eggs the other day, I couldnt believe it and got a lovely nostalgic feeling all through me

For Forks Sake

greedygoblin wrote: »

One thing I've noticed a huge decline in (this year especially) is the swallow. There's usually a few nest in our garage every year, but this year it's empty. It could be down to the number of Magpies around though. Those fcukers numbers have exploded recently and they're killing everything else around.

The b@stards are all living round my house. It's like being in an aviary.

Frosty McSnowballs

fleet_admiral wrote: »

I saw white dog eggs the other day, I couldnt believe it and got a lovely nostalgic feeling all through me

I'm scared!

fleet_admiral

greedygoblin wrote: »

One thing I've noticed a huge decline in (this year especially) is the swallow. There's usually a few nest in our garage every year, but this year it's empty. It could be down to the number of Magpies around though. Those fcukers numbers have exploded recently and they're killing everything else around.

Just wait til you get married......

Duck's hoop

greedygoblin wrote: »

One thing I've noticed a huge decline in (this year especially) is the swallow. There's usually a few nest in our garage every year, but this year it's empty. It could be down to the number of Magpies around though. Those fcukers numbers have exploded recently and they're killing everything else around.

Less insect / flies = less swallows of course. Magpies have definitely taken over in Dublin. No birdsong where I am. Just the horrible kakkakkak of those yokes.

dockleaf

All the earwigs in Ireland are apparently in my garden. They spend a good bit of the day hanging out around the back door waiting for me to leave it open. Then they make a mad rush for the bathroom where they wait with evil grins for me to have a shower. I hate them so much but it's evidently not reciprocated.:(

Banjo String

I'm not exaggerating when I say there was about 50 crows on the roof of my house this evening, these and magpies definitely have the area overwhelmed.

I used to have goldfinch feeding out my back, greenfinch too, and I'm lucky enough that a pair of great tits (ok, insert pun) have returned to nest for the last 3 years, but man does Ireland need a crow magpie cull. :mad:

Seriously.

callaway92

White dog poo

ctrl-alt-delete

White dog sh1te, have not seen that since the 80's!

Markcheese

Front of my van covered in bugs at the moment, and seeing loads of swallows around... Not massive numbers of hairy mollies or caterpillars, and not many butterflies yet either, but that may change if the weather stays fine...
Saw some small blue butterflies last year, I'd never noticed them before..

cerastes

Duck's hoop wrote: »

Insect and fly life has been greatly reduced in recent years.

Look to your windscreen on a summer's eve after a long drive for anecdotal evidence. Hardly a smudge.

Not noticed so much other stuff but loads of bloody fruit flies, I dont ever remember them being about so much, constantly swatting them with the electric fly swat (good way to catch them without squishing them).

greedygoblin wrote: »

Twenty plus years ago I remember having to get those sticky fly catcher things to hang from the ceiling in the kitchen during the summer. You don't see those around anymore. No need for them I suppose.

was thinking about getting something like that for the above,

not sure about the swallows, was always house martins here, they've waxed and waned, not so many this year here.

ArtyM

Judging by some posts so far, the double entendre is alive and well.

Banjo String

Banjo String wrote: »

I and I'm lucky enough that a pair of great tits (ok, insert pun) .

It wasn't a pun I was thinking of inserting.




























well, how was that?

Banjo String

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

White dog sh1te, have not seen that since the 80's!

Yummy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eicJ08AU6do

keith16

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Ohmigod I thought they were gone and I saw the BIGGEST one in Denmark last week crawling all over my tent. UGH. He was horrible a horrible bastard.

Lah dee dah, you have a tent.

keith16

keith16 wrote: »

Lah dee dah, you have a tent.

No. I *had* a tent.

The earwig won in the end.

Banjo String

keith16 wrote: »

Lah dee dah, you have a tent.

I pitched one this morning.

Adamantium

Banjo String wrote: »

I'm lucky enough that a pair of great tits

*Snigger*

Banjo String

Deleted User wrote: »

It wasn't a pun I was thinking of inserting.




























well, how was that?

Not bad.


Bet you had to think long and hard about that one.

keith16

Banjo String wrote: »

I pitched one this morning.

I can't think of a response, funny or otherwise that would not make me sound outrageously gay.

IvaBigWun

ArtyM wrote: »

Judging by some posts so far, the double entendre is alive and well.

No.

In your end-o.

dockleaf

cerastes wrote: »

Not noticed so much other stuff but loads of bloody fruit flies, I dont ever remember them being about so much, constantly swatting them with the electric fly swat (good way to catch them without squishing them).

Had loads of them last year. Two steps to getting rid of them-

Put the fruit in the fridge.

Get tall tumblers/glasses, pour a little cider vinegar in the bottom, cover top with cling film and pierce with a fork, flies get attracted to smell get into glass and can't come back out, die in glass. I put these glasses in a few rooms last year and got rid of fruit flies fairly fast ( for alliterative effect!)./

Banjo String

keith16 wrote: »

did the wife take it down again?

Na it fell down itself after I had a pee, strangely enough.

(any help to ya?)

cerastes

dockleaf wrote: »

Had loads of them last year. Two steps to getting rid of them-

Put the fruit in the fridge.

Get tall tumblers/glasses, pour a little cider vinegar in the bottom, cover top with cling film and pierce with a fork, flies get attracted to smell get into glass and can't come back out, die in glass. I put these glasses in a few rooms last year and got rid of fruit flies fairly fast ( for alliterative effect!)./

Think I tried something like that, dont think it was cider vinegar, I'll be more persistant.
Some fruit doesnt like the fridge, I'm sure the bananas are the source, doesnt really bear thinking about that they're been eaten, sure they are in the skin.Have a mesh cover over the fruit, but they are still to be found everywhere.

Strangely a thread about flying ants suggests they are about in numbers, usually happens for a few days in this kind of weather I think.

Wibbs

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

White dog sh1te, have not seen that since the 80's!

Feed your dog bones from the butcher and you'll see the white poo. They used to add bonemeal to dog food back in the day, but don't anymore. Given your average hound is now being fed glorified meat flavoured weetabix(and most vets approve of this bullshíte), i'm not surprised the old stylee dog shíte is near extinct.

As for insect life? There's something to the notion that you see more as a kid because you're out there looking more closely at things. However insect life is defo on the decline. I saw it many years back. Being of the (now sadly retired) fly fishing type I noticed that certain insects got much rarer or were completely absent. On a few rivers anyway. I saw many old traditional artificial flies that were once popular and represented different real life insects become useless, left in a corner of the flybox as artifacts.

House of Blaze

Dragonflies.

There's another one!