http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/09/12/ask-an-entomologist-where-are-the-bugs/ An Entomologist's Blog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:18:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/09/12/ask-an-entomologist-where-are-the-bugs/#comment-2826 Tony Gutierrez Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:55:54 +0000 http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/09/12/ask-an-entomologist-where-are-the-bugs/#comment-2826 I'm not an entomologist, I'm a molecular biologist, but I work in the Entomological Sciences Program at the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine in Edgewood Area, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. I sometimes do mosquito and tick collections in the field to do DNA tests for things like West Nile and Lyme Disease. I've been in Maryland (commute from Pennsylvania) for the last 9 years. I've definitely noticed a drop in the number of flying insects especially the smaller ones. Maryland was extremely humid and moist in the spring and summer when I first arrived in 1998. I came from a dry cool Colorado so the difference was dramatic for me. In the last few years the climate here in the Susquehanna Valley has become much more Colorado-like where small flying insects are also in limited numbers. Maybe the cooler, drier local climate shift has affected the indigenous insects. Just a guess. I’m not an entomologist, I’m a molecular biologist, but I work in the Entomological Sciences Program at the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine in Edgewood Area, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. I sometimes do mosquito and tick collections in the field to do DNA tests for things like West Nile and Lyme Disease. I’ve been in Maryland (commute from Pennsylvania) for the last 9 years. I’ve definitely noticed a drop in the number of flying insects especially the smaller ones. Maryland was extremely humid and moist in the spring and summer when I first arrived in 1998. I came from a dry cool Colorado so the difference was dramatic for me. In the last few years the climate here in the Susquehanna Valley has become much more Colorado-like where small flying insects are also in limited numbers. Maybe the cooler, drier local climate shift has affected the indigenous insects. Just a guess.

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