I havent seen a hornytoad in forever either.
I havent seen a hornytoad in forever either.
Saw one randomly crawling up my front door the other day. Remember thinking it's been forever since I last saw one.
Saw one randomly crawling up my front door the other day. Remember thinking it's been forever since I last saw one.
Seen a few of them, not terribly large numbers though. But where I am now is cooler and wetter than where I grew up, so we get more slaters and rolly pollies than ear wigs. I sometimes find giant earwigs in fallen trees in my wood lot, cool looking guys about 1-1/2" long, hard to catch though as they are pretty quick to shoot down a grub hole in the wood.
There is a massive drop off in insect life in general though. I remember as a kid driving at night in the summer time and the windscreen getting plastered with all manner of bugs and moths. Now, there's hardly any. I can also remember when we would have Goat Moths (not sure the exact species, they were big and the grubs would live under Red Gum trees in the swamps, old fellas would catch the grubs to use as bait for catching Murray Cod) that would all hatch at once, not every year but every few years, and the verandah would be crawling with them.
I think the reduction in insect life is likely due to the emergence of GM broadacre crops and the consequent increase in use of certain pesticides on a much higher scale than before. That combined with modification of the landscape (damming creeks and levelling paddocks) and an increase in light pollution has hugely affected the abundance of insect life. They'll probably try to blame it on "climate change", but that's bull shit.
Seen a few of them, not terribly large numbers though. But where I am now is cooler and wetter than where I grew up, so we get more slaters and rolly pollies than ear wigs. I sometimes find giant earwigs in fallen trees in my wood lot, cool looking guys about 1-1/2" long, hard to catch though as they are pretty quick to shoot down a grub hole in the wood.
There is a massive drop off in insect life in general though. I remember as a kid driving at night in the summer time and the windscreen getting plastered with all manner of bugs and moths. Now, there's hardly any. I can also remember when we would have Goat Moths (not sure the exact species, they were big and the grubs would live under Red Gum trees in the swamps, old fellas would catch the grubs to use as bait for catching Murray Cod) that would all hatch at once, not every year but every few years, and the verandah would be crawling with them.
I think the reduction in insect life is likely due to the emergence of GM broadacre crops and the consequent increase in use of certain pesticides on a much higher scale than before. That combined with modification of the landscape (damming creeks and levelling paddocks) and an increase in light pollution has hugely affected the abundance of insect life. They'll probably try to blame it on "climate change", but that's bull shit.
I use to blame it on fireants but there are less of those now.
I use to blame it on fireants but there are less of those now.
That’s funny, I got one this morning in the bathroom and haven’t seen one in a long time either. Haven’t seen a hornytoad or a roadrunner in probably 20 years. Used to be everywhere.
That’s funny, I got one this morning in the bathroom and haven’t seen one in a long time either. Haven’t seen a hornytoad or a roadrunner in probably 20 years. Used to be everywhere.
FUCK, mine was in bathroom also, roadrunners I still see. Just not as much.
FUCK, mine was in bathroom also, roadrunners I still see. Just not as much.
Lol, saw your post and was like wtf. On occasion I get a bark scorpion that falls from the fart fan into the toilet. Like niggers they’re a rockfish. The slightest tick sound from above will send you fly’n off the pot. Thank God black light reveals them in the dark. Haven’t had too many in the house, but some years I’ve burned as many a 300 with a torch outside around the house.
Lol, saw your post and was like wtf. On occasion I get a bark scorpion that falls from the fart fan into the toilet. Like niggers they’re a rockfish. The slightest tick sound from above will send you fly’n off the pot. Thank God black light reveals them in the dark. Haven’t had too many in the house, but some years I’ve burned as many a 300 with a torch outside around the house.
Scorpions here fall from the sky and light fixtures. I hate those bastards always up and ready.
Scorpions here fall from the sky and light fixtures. I hate those bastards always up and ready.
They're real?
They're real?
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