Didn't know where to put this, so I put it here. Several days ago, I noticed a lot of dead insects on the ground, and I mean a LOT. Supposedly my area is not under 5G; even 4G is not everywhere, but it striked me, and I wondered if some forumites have noticed this too? Could also be some cosmic things, but unusual for sure.
Here, in Bavaria, Germany, it is the opposite to the max. I live in the very center of a city of roughly 320 000 inhabitants and I am very very lucky to have a real garden (not a rooftop garden, which are very common here). And just some days ago I said to my husband that I have almost the feeling that our garden feeds almost all the insects of the city. It was a joke, of course not ALL come to my garden, but I have seen at least five different types of wasps (they are always looking for drinking water, I give it to them), several types of solitary bees which are rare, several longhorn beetles, honeybees, bumblebees, butterflies, even some quite big black hornets (I think they live in my third - unused - compost, but didn't find the main entrancehole, didn't look to hard) and - the only kinda nuisance - a bazillion of ants because of the mild winter we had here.
Through the last years I learned that city gardens are often much busier with insects and birds (I have a big list here too; bunt woodpecker, nuthatches, garden redstarts who are nesting in every sheltered small angle they can find, blackbirds, doves, different types of tits, even robins, and last year I found a feather of a jaybird (a total forest lover). There are bats too, two differnt types, one very very tiny (my female cat is dreaming of catching one...) than the countryside gardens. Why? I do not really know. Maybe it is that in the countryside there is not that much variety in plants, due to all the monoculture, but I think it is more than that. I think it has to do with the pesticides that are used more often in the countryside (or blown over by the wind), while in the cities people like me are interested in feeding insicts and therefore have more natural gardens. There has been a fashion of creating "clean" and rocky gardens in the last years here, with only some - trimmed - evergreens in it, I am sure that is also not the best for insects and other wildlife creatures.