The insects are disappearing. You’ve heard this before. In the news about bees and butterflies. But what I am saying here is not what you’ve heard.

I’ve watched insects my entire life. From early childhood. I see what others do not see. Cannot see.

And what I am saying is this: over the past 18 months, at most, and perhaps the last 9 specifically, a broad variety of insects, have not merely become scarce.

They are gone.

The insects in my house, which I have known and observed for decades, spiders, moths, interlopers… have dwindled to near disappearance. But other insects, very tiny creatures that nearly no one would ever notice… have almost completely disappeared.

And it’s springtime…

This is not the result of insecticides.

The insects are dying.

It may be somewhat local, as I rarely travel, but here, where I live… the change is unmistakable.

And our fate is so intimately linked with theirs that I cannot even begin to explain what this means, will mean, and will come to mean, very very soon. Because they’re not merely disappearing.

The rate and which they are disappearing, is accelerating, over very short periods of time.

This is all I will say, here.