When I was a kid, I remember seeing clouds of them in the school field when we went out to play. There used to be so many that they would cover your windshield. For the last few years I have hardly seen any around. Today, I only saw a single solitary bug lazily flying through the air.
I suspect the rapidly changing climate is the cause but, I guess I feel a bit of shock at realizing and reflecting on the fact that this is happening right at home.
I hope that is possible. I have always had trust in the scientific process but, at times I feel human changes to the biosphere are a one way street at this point. Right now it seems science’s ability to come up with countermeasures to environmental destabilization cannot keep pace with it. I hope that science, unshackled from the profit motive under rational communist planning will be able to do better, so that the suffering of so many organisms, great and small, can be avoided.