I camped up on the plateau last night. First time camping in maybe 8 years and haven’t camped up there in closer to 40. It was weird though. No crickets. No tree frogs. That iconic wall of noise at night. Gone.
The only sounds were intermittent motorcycles, trucks, trains, barges and planes. Everything you don’t want to hear and none of the things you do.
It was depressing. It’s been bothering me all day and we had them last year. Is it just my area or is this the new norm?
Well, crickets are insects, and tree frogs are amphibians, but you’re saying this is a world-wide thing?
They are all in the kingdom of animalia. And yes, we are in the midst of a mass extinction event.
I didn’t think bugs were considered animals, but I do stand corrected. Bugs are animals.
Sad to hear… The extinction event I mean… Not the taxonomy thing.
It doesnt matter what their class is. The climate is changing rapidly. Everything is dying. The niches will be refilled in a couple hundred thousand years.
It’s still quicker than evolving my own stridulatory organ. I’ll have to wait it seems.