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I am also seeing reduced numbers of all arthropods on my 4 acres. I have owned this property for 30 years and gardened the Hell out of it so I know what was here back in the 90's. I grew cut flowers for market for a few years back then and the levels of bees, spiders, grasshoppers, everything was just incredible then. We had so many native bumbles that they would weigh down the flower stalks. I was so used to bees buzzing around me out there I had no fear of being stung and never was. We would have to shake the garden spiders off the pickings as we went. It was really the funnest thing I ever did!

Now everything is still here but not remotely in the numbers I used to see. The Bumbles that were so delightful are now a rare sight. I have neighbors around me doing hives and things sound okay with them but the native insects are another story. We have these magnificent spiders here that everyone calls the zigzag spider. They can be nearly 4 inches across and make huge circular webs that can be nearly 4 feet across! They are always a welcome sight for me but they are disappearing along with the large grasshopper populations they depend on for food. Whatever these psychos are doing that is causing this it is proof they care nothing about the environment or life on this planet. Is it the crop spraying? Is it the chem trailing? Is it the millimeter waves? Or all three and more? I have been wanting to ask you if you have seen the "spider web"/filament drops I have seen here on multiple occasions. I am talking about 30+ foot long hanks of multiple strands coming in by the hundreds and actually shining in the sun like silver. After a little while everything is covered in it. This occurs once or twice a year here. What the fuck is it and why are they doing it?

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Well, then this explains all those web things I’m seeing out side, that glow and actually throw light! I actually caught my first one on my cameras outside, thinking to myself what in the hell am I seeing? So, to keep my sanity I went outside and sure enough these things are everywhere! Yet, I’ve not seen a spider in 3 years! Not that I’m a fan, but we need them.

It’s now to the point that we cannot even enjoy our own backyards these days and that really steams my clams!

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