I live in Mobile, Alabama, which is one of the hottest, muggiest, most verdant places in the nation. Think Louisiana-type conditions. We live in a low point of what was once called Wragg Swamp. There is an old creek branch at the edge of our property where the frogs singing after rainfall can grow nearly cacophonous.
Anecdotally, our house has seen a major reduction in insect life over the last decade. All the moths and other night fliers that gathered in abundance around our porch and garage lights have disappeared. They used to support a healthy colony of spiders and geckos. Now, those are gone, too.
The dirt daubers that built tubes on our garage walls aren't around. The wasps that used to make three or four nests a summer on our porch ceiling aren't there. The fireflies that used to be more abundant in our backyard have scaled back. The honeybees that flitted through the clover blossoms in the yard? Forget about it. The "love bugs" that appeared during the apex of hurricane season and encrusted auto grills and hoods aren't very common anymore. Even the blue jays that lived in our yard through the 1990s, 2000s and early 2010s aren't heard or seen like they were.
We don't use insecticides or poisons or anything of the sort.
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