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Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I haven’t noticed too many of them running rampant this year. Though I certainly did have one jump on me yesterday.
Idk about other places but in Pittsburgh, they just dropped. I wonder if it was the constant freeze thaw cycles causing the decline here. . They were hatching in like November of 2023 but a lot of the adults were dying attached to trees when the temps dropped below freezing.
An actual photo of one when harvesting SLF eggs for an Ecology Lab.
Never saw any before this year. I don’t get how they survive because they are the slowest, dumbest bugs I’ve ever seen. They just loudly splat onto the ground out of nowhere and flail about while I stomp them into a pulp.
davidgro@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yup. Kids are jumpy alright. I expect to see a lot more of them this evening.