[everydayentropy]

Yup! I always thought it was me staying inside more as I got older, but I rarely see butterflies and bumble bees anymore.

This terrifies me more than climate alarmism.

[smackeyacky]

You don't think it might be related?

[quacked]

They're related in that both are downstream of industrialization, but changing climates aren't lessening insect biodiversity as much as overuse of various chemicals are.

[pclmulqdq]

Warmer climate should be better for insect populations. This is mostly about pesticide overuse.

[hermitcrab]

And habitat loss? Crop monocultures are not great for most insects (or animals or birds).

[adammarples]

Insects can be very sensitive to drought

[m463]

what got me is that over the past 10 or more years, I've continually seen dead bees on the ground.

and I think... what a small creature to *notice* on the ground. How many dead bees escape my notice? there must be a LOT.

[eutectic]

Bees live less than a year, so the number of dead bees can surely only be used as an indicator of changes on around that time-scale or shorter. Eventually fewer bees means fewer dead bees.

[lasc4r]

Do you think insecticides are altering where the bees die? Otherwise it sounds like you're describing a large population of former bees.