Guest guest Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 Fewer birds and bats will mean more bugs and more bugs mean higher crop losses. Its like around hear. Grackles have turned up in large numbers this year. Not only do they cause tens of millions of dollars of crop damage, but they also chase off or kill sparrows and other ground birds. They've been here a bit over a month and the sparrows have been gone almost as long. Since then, the number of spiders has really picked up, particularly some large crawling hunter types. Not only have they been outside but I've killed a few inside the house, more so far this year than in the last 5 or 6 and they are big. Never had that problem when the sparrows were around in numbers. Unfortunately the grackles are a federally protected migratory species, which is really strange since they are a pest species that wrecks crops, raids other bird nests for eggs and kills other species. In a message dated 5/30/2011 2:58:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes: You can expect the bug population to go up if that happens.Administrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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