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01-29-2020, 07:48 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Central Alberta
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It is past time
Finally some country has the balls to do what needs done.
Reports suggest 1/2 of all insects are now gone in Europe.
I’ve seen the same drop in Canada in my area. Bird counts have revealed the insect eating birds are down 50% in Canada. For fishermen, insect loss is a huge issue as they are the building block of all fisheries.
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01-30-2020, 09:07 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: edmonton
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Good for France.
Hopefully we do something in North America before it's too late.
Pesticides and GMO production are not working out so well.
Read an article recently about the loss of native plants and introduction of non-native plants in rural and urban ecosystems also having an adverse effect on bird
( more specifically their food source; berries and insects) populations.
Screw up the food chain and bad things happen.
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01-30-2020, 07:36 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2015
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Seems to me there were still plenty of mosquitoes around last summer!
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01-31-2020, 07:03 AM
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Location: Calgary
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I have to agree, over the last few years especially, the number of invertebrates is down. In many of the streams, I fish it was easy to see massive numbers of stonefly husks on streamside rocks. It's down considerably, with hatches much thinner. I was hoping it was just a few years of drought but this last year flipping stones and screening shallows revealed much fewer nymphs, clingers, etc.
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01-31-2020, 07:30 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Central Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Flyguy
Seems to me there were still plenty of mosquitoes around last summer!
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Last summer I saw 8. And I felt so bad for them, I didn’t swat one.
For whatever reason, some areas of Alberta have more bugs than others. The hatches locally seem to drop a lot over the past 4 years.
Don
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02-03-2020, 10:51 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 407
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River Morphology
One would have to think that the combination of floods = much larger flood plains combined with the lack of minimum flows policies.... its no wonder there's fewer macroinvertebrates in our rivers hopefully time and some policy changes will help to bring them back, on the plus side I am geeing more bugs on some streams that were hit hard by flooding and river morphology and a few years ago seemed to have almost no hatches......
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02-03-2020, 02:13 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: calgary
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mho Is in the Bow watershed[below]Calgary. Years ago they took out phosphates,very few bugs since.They replaced that,part of there waste treatment .With Huge UV lights,right at the discharge outlets from the plants.Fricken kills everything
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