Glad they address the issues other than heat and humidity. We've all but crashed our ecosystems and tough fuckers like ticks, mosquitoes and flies are thriving. Diversity means balance. Upset that and some populations are going to go haywire.

Posted this a few times: The shallow ponds at our camp in the swamp dried up two years in a row. That is not normal weather in Florida.

That killed the dragonfly larvae and small fish. Seems things are back to normal this year, but the dragonflies won't be back until next year at the soonest. Went out the other day and no amount of bug spray would fend the mosquitoes off, had to go home.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/catastrophic-73-decline-in-the-average-size-of-global-wildlife-populations-in-just-50-years-reveals-a-system-in-peril

And that's only counting vertebrates. Human activity has kicked the bottom of the food chain out. Anecdotally, we used to have so many love bugs in September that the whole month was a nightmare, everybody out washing their cars. I saw a few over a total of three days last fall.