Ladybugs that stash in your house instead of in a log end up waking from winter dormancy earlier than their prey does. They inevitably starve and exhaust their calories. In an old house you can sometimes discover a nook somewhere and uncover a graveyard of thousands of them.
Most traffic noise these days comes from tire noise on roads not the engine, save for muscle cars and the occasional truck I guess. Evs are just as noisy if not moreso because their added weight.
I have watched seagulls commuting back and forth at midnight, as city lighting at scale around a large harbour seems to work for some of them.
Country gulls still commute at regular diurnal schedules, or at least there still isn't enough light to watch things flying at night.
I have watched crows that specialise in catching stuned insects on the verges where a busy hyway intersects a large stretch of mature healthy forest, but not anywhere else.Though I can see smaller birds getting used to crumbs and ends bieng tossed from early commuters breakfasts on the fly.
I was looking up fake owls on Amazon at 4:30 in the morning today because I couldn’t take the bird noise outside.
Ladybugs that stash in your house instead of in a log end up waking from winter dormancy earlier than their prey does. They inevitably starve and exhaust their calories. In an old house you can sometimes discover a nook somewhere and uncover a graveyard of thousands of them.
Given electric cars are quieter, curious about how likely is a reversal of this trend.
Most traffic noise these days comes from tire noise on roads not the engine, save for muscle cars and the occasional truck I guess. Evs are just as noisy if not moreso because their added weight.
This has not been my experience at all. Maybe the human ear tuning exacerbates the engine noise
I have watched seagulls commuting back and forth at midnight, as city lighting at scale around a large harbour seems to work for some of them. Country gulls still commute at regular diurnal schedules, or at least there still isn't enough light to watch things flying at night. I have watched crows that specialise in catching stuned insects on the verges where a busy hyway intersects a large stretch of mature healthy forest, but not anywhere else.Though I can see smaller birds getting used to crumbs and ends bieng tossed from early commuters breakfasts on the fly.