Dragonfly time here in NJ

[Gene Mean]

Azure Bluet Damselfly

There were three different types of dragon/damsels flying around me. This is the only one that settled for a minute.

 

[3cylbill]

Do you have many honey bees or butterflys ,they are almost nonexistant her on the southern tier of NY...

 

[Gene Mean]

Do you have many honey bees or butterflys ,they are almost nonexistant her on the southern tier of NY...

We have tons and tons of honeybees and butterflies. I don't fertilize or use weed killer at all. We have a lot of clover which the bees and small butterflies love. The rabbits come at night for the clover. When I mow the lawn we don't get them all for a few days.

 

[ToddsPoint]

When I see the dragon flies across the road in the pasture I know some kind of bug just hatched out. Sometimes there are hundreds of them.

A lot fewer bees and butterflies than there used to be. I think spraying the fields with insecticides from airplanes has done it. Milkweed plants are very common around here and still few Monarch butterflies. Gary

 

[newnan man]

If it's killing the bugs it's killing us. Might take a bit longer but look at all the cancers & auto immune diseases people suffer. Much more prevalent than when I was young. Sad.