RE: If I offered you a million dollars to photograph just one dozen or more insect types, would you try then?

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If I offered you a million dollars to photograph just one dozen or more insect types, would you try then?

in nature •  9 years ago 

Thank you for this, I saw and upvoted your post.

So, now down to business:

You can't sleep at night??? In my little pristine village in rural Ontario Canada I spent the entire spring summer and fall of 2009 drinking every.single.day just so I COULD sleep. 2009 it was SILENT at night. All my life I slept with the orchestra of sounds every night when it wasn't winter, and when it didn't return one spring ... it really upset me.

We saw this coming, it was a slow walk into it, and, this has been a long time coming. In 1970 we knew that we had to stop burning gasoline and diesel. In 2010 I wrote this:

https://steemit.com/environment/@earthlink/the-end-of-the-animal-kingdom

The last 2 paragraphs of this article have a July 2016 update, and explain why there are still insects here and there. It is the nature of Dead Zones.

In 2013 I slept at an event I had been going to regularly for years called "The Big Gig" which was in a remote part of Vermont USA and I and Christa slept outside, on the stage, with no mosquito netting or tent or anything. Normally at the event, the first long weekend in August, it was a feeding frenzy for the insects and I'd return home with all kinds of bite marks and eggs from all sorts of critters in my skin.

The thing is, I should be able to find a dozen Butterfly types alone here. There used to be tons of different types of Moths. I have not seen Horseflies since ... 2007? Deerflies are absent and so are most everything else.

If you have a dozen, you are in a part of the Northern Hemisphere that has been spared: this is not true everywhere, or even anywhere, else.

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