A recent NYT article reported on a decline in the bug
population. This caused me to reflect on
my own experience and I find I have a lot of anecdotal evidence supporting
this. It feels a little scary. Have any of you got similar stories?

Here are mine:

We used to go to an ice cream place (outdoor, soft serve,
etc.) when the kids were little, forty years ago. It was a trial waiting for our order because
the mosquitoes were so thick. They had a
bug zapper working overtime. We went
last week with grandchildren and there was nary a mosquito, and no bug
zapper. There’s a pond in the back just
as there was 40 years ago.

I haven’t had to swat a mosquito all this season. Maybe not last season either. We’re in the country.

There are almost never bugs on our windshield as there used
to be when I was a child. But that may
be the aerodynamics of modern cars.

This year the black flies almost disappeared by May 28. Normally they’re here till Father’s Day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/opinion/sunday/insects-bugs-naturalists-scientists.html