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injuries-in-dust: indigomorgan: actualaster: headspace-hotel: tiny-tiger-lily: headspace-hotel: redgoldsparks: My most recent comic for The Nib! You can read my other Nib stories here. instagram / patreon / portfolio I’ve noticed there are fewer butterflies just in the past few years. Also bees. There aren’t as many bees. Also far fewer fireflies. seriously!!! Used to be even 10-15 years ago there would be patches of sidewalk next to gardens that sometimes you couldn’t walk on once in a while because they were just covered in butterflies sunning themselves between trips to the flowers. Like there were times I would walk past some spots and it’d be like a movie with this wave of small butterflies that would fly up, disturbed by my passing. Used to see lots of fireflies, too. Now it’s a rare treat to see multiple butterflies at once, and lightning bugs are much fewer and far between. It’s sad. chasing butterflies and lightning bugs was a big part of how i remember spring and summer when I was a kid (not that long ago either, the mid-late 90s) and there are so few of them now. combined with the bee collapse it’s very depressing we’re not just killing bugs, we’re killing the most precious ones :( Recent data shows that bees are starting to make a comeback, thanks to initiatives like people planting more bee-friendly flowers in their gardens. If we keep it going then butterflies and other insects will follow. So many people are like “getting rid of plastic staws won’t do anything when these six corporations are doing 70% of the world’s pollution, so why bother?” (hyperbole on my behalf) BUT these few wildflowers prove what an impact a few caring people can have against those same corporations and their affect on the environment. One person no longer buying plastic straws, buying energy-saving bulbs, and planting a few more wildflowers in their garden can have more of an impact than we ever could imagine! -- source link