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Things/Species that have disappeared

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  • #32
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,365 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    White dog poo


  • #34
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


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


  • #35
    Markcheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,240 ✭✭✭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..

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • #36
    cerastes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    ArtyM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭ArtyM


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


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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?


  • #39
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #40
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    keith16 wrote: »
    Lah dee dah, you have a tent.

    No. I *had* a tent.

    The earwig won in the end.


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  • #42
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    keith16 wrote: »
    Lah dee dah, you have a tent.

    I pitched one this morning.


  • #43
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Banjo String wrote: »
    I'm lucky enough that a pair of great tits

    *Snigger*


  • #44
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #45
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭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.


  • #46
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    ArtyM wrote: »
    Judging by some posts so far, the double entendre is alive and well.

    No.

    In your end-o.


  • #47
    dockleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭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!)./


  • #48
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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?)


  • #49
    cerastes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭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.


  • #50
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #51
    House of Blaze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭House of Blaze


    Dragonflies.

    There's another one! ;)


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  • #52
    eyescreamcone
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    I haven't seen a big hairy bush since 1988


  • #53
    cerastes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭cerastes


    House of Blaze wrote: »
    Dragonflies.

    There's another one! ;)

    At times Ive seen plenty of them, last year I believe, mostly near a canal, but I saw some far away from water source near where I live, nice to see as they eat the other unpleasant stuff.
    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    I haven't seen a big hairy bush since 1988

    Thankfully I understood they were in decline, I believe there was an article about it somewhere, based around the reasons for the decline of the creature inhabitants that some people had in those regions going down in numbers after years of deforestation being widespread.


  • #54
    thelad95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Actually whatever happened Crunchie nuggets? What a nice treat they were.


  • #55
    Buzz Killington the third
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Buzz Killington the third


    Fat frogs! Hope they come back again!


  • #56
    RoadhouseBlues
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭RoadhouseBlues


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    What the f#ck ever happened to Earwigs?

    Had the misfortune of meeting one today in the bathroom. Although in saying that, I hadn't seen one in ages before that. Hate the feckers.


  • #57
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    There used to be these mad adder/snake-like yokes in the drains around our estate as kids, and slithering along the footpaths in wet weather. They were a good 6 inches long and didn't half give everyone the heeby jeebies.

    And now they've just disappeared just like yon earwigs, Mr Freezes, and Nesquik cereal.


  • #58
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,024 ✭✭✭✭irishgeo


    Bees and wasps. Haven't seen or any in ages


  • #59
    Buzz Killington the third
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Buzz Killington the third


    conorh91 wrote: »
    There used to be these mad adder/snake-like yokes in the drains around our estate as kids, and slithering along the footpaths in wet weather. They were a good 6 inches long and didn't half give everyone the heeby jeebies.

    And now they've just disappeared just like yon earwigs, Mr Freezes, and Nesquik cereal.
    Slow worms?


  • #60
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    The wife's sex drive.


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  • #61
    RoadhouseBlues
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭RoadhouseBlues


    irishgeo wrote: »
    Bees and wasps. Haven't seen or any in ages

    I only saw one wasp this year. Couple of years ago I used to be tormented by them in the flat. Very strange.


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