Allow me to present a contradictory anecdote! This summer we had more bumblebees than I’ve seen in a long, long time, possibly ever, in the part of Finland where I live. On the other hand, there was a curious lack of wasps – but then again, a lot of people I know complained about there being a surfeit of those, so it was clearly a case of uneven distribution. There were less mosquitoes than usual, but that’s to be expected with such a dry summer. There were also less butterflies than usual, especially early in the summer, but that in turn was because the two previous summers had been unusually cold and wet.
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