Jackrabbit Mystery

[bobbymalone]

aren't you taking it off topic by complaining about it going off topic?

[PurpleFloyd]

To further derail the thread there are tons of fireflies around here but the thing that I lament is the decline of butterflies and most prevalent is the reduction of the Monarch population. When my daughter was young we would go out every year from the end of June to mid July and watch the caterpillars on the milkweeds and watch them grow from tiny to adult and would usually put a few in a habitat and watch them make the Chrysalis and morph into the adult stage then release them but this year with her in College I have been walking the new puppy and have seen zero. New methods of spraying fields for bugs has done much of this imo

[leech~~]

34 minutes ago, bobbymalone said:

aren't you taking it off topic by complaining about it going off topic?

 

How, that doesn't make any sense-again. 

[1lessdog]

I live right outside of Moorhead and see a few in the winter now days. About 8 yrs ago they moved into the shelterbelt around our place and there were about 50. It was nice to see them. I grew up in Harvey N.D. and we would go out and shoot a pickup box full in a night. That 250 - 300 jacks in a night. We would sell them to a guy that had a Mink and Fox ranch and get 50 cents each. The amount of jacks we would see in a night would be in the 1000's.

 

I think all the chemicals and pesticides are killing them off. We dont see the Meadow Larks like we use to either.