• Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    25 days ago

    I haven’t noticed too many of them running rampant this year. Though I certainly did have one jump on me yesterday.

    • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      Never saw any before this year. I don’t get how they survive because they are the slowest, dumbest bugs I’ve ever seen. They just loudly splat onto the ground out of nowhere and flail about while I stomp them into a pulp.

    • notthebees@reddthat.com
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      24 days ago

      Idk about other places but in Pittsburgh, they just dropped. I wonder if it was the constant freeze thaw cycles causing the decline here. . They were hatching in like November of 2023 but a lot of the adults were dying attached to trees when the temps dropped below freezing.

      An actual photo of one when harvesting SLF eggs for an Ecology Lab.