Silent summer

[mannie711]

Now you know I'm not all "the earth is warming! buy fluorescent bulbs or DIE!" But I just went outside to admire the lightning bugs and it occurs to me that the days and nights are very quiet for this time of year. I'm used to the crickets chirping quite loudly at night and it's now silence in the backyard. I also remember as recently as last

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[jinglebellz61]

I have noticed the quiet and the early and numerous lightning bugs. We did hear a very strange and unknown sound (insect, amphibian, mammal?) I did hear some crickets in the field behind the ballpark a few nights ago, but none here yet.

I imagine it's the wet weather.

[friggasgirl]

The wet weather also screwed with the bees this season (like Greg needed any more trouble). When it rains they can't forage. They missed a good deal of the nectar flow (all of them, not just Greg's) because they were sitting in the hives. Greg'll have to feed them like mad and hope for a heavy fall nectar flow and NO RAIN!