What bugs/diseases/critters have ya'll seen that weren't around 30-40 years ago?

[MossRoad]

 

[Dftodd]

We have bunnies... I'll take bunnies.

We have copper heads and fire ants

 

[Dftodd]

Same. The only daily predator we have to watch out for, and only because we have a small dog, is foxes. We get a lot of foxes, and very occasional black bears and big cats... but the only ones I've ever personally seen with my own eyes are the foxes.

I do find a lot of bear poop in my yard. Either that, or I have a neighbor who eats a lot of berries and really doesn't like me.

My dog has started pooping dead center on the new neighbors driveway where it meets the street.

We've been blaming it on their dog

 

[tallyho8]

We have bunnies... I'll take bunnies.

All the bunnies in our area disappeared when the coyotes moved in after Katrina. Yesterday we lost another laying hen to the coyotes and only have one hen left. Now we have to buy store bought eggs.

 

[tallyho8]

My dog has started pooping dead center on the new neighbors driveway where it meets the street.

We've been blaming it on their dog

All my life I have owned, raised, bred or trained dogs and had very many of them. Many of them ran loose as we usually did not have fences. As long as we didn't have fences, my dogs would always go poop in the neighbor's yard instead of my yard.

One of the last dogs I owned was previously owned by my neighbor and it would always come poop in my yard.
The Humane Society took his dog away and put it in the pound because he neglected and mistreated it. It had heartworms and they were going to put it to sleep the next day when I went and adopted it and treated it for heartworms. Within a few days she always went in their yard to poop. She lived 10 more years without ever pooping in my yard. You think she was trying to tell my neighbor something?

 

[Jstpssng]

My neighbor's dog used to cross a busy highway, walk 700 feet down my driveway and **** in my yard. I went over to talk to him one night, and explained that my pup would go out and eat it. The look on his face was priceless, and his dog never came in my yard again.

 

[Dftodd]

All my life I have owned, raised, bred or trained dogs and had very many of them. Many of them ran loose as we usually did not have fences. As long as we didn't have fences, my dogs would always go poop in the neighbor's yard instead of my yard.

One of the last dogs I owned was previously owned by my neighbor and it would always come poop in my yard.
The Humane Society took his dog away and put it in the pound because he neglected and mistreated it. It had heartworms and they were going to put it to sleep the next day when I went and adopted it and treated it for heartworms. Within a few days she always went in their yard to poop. She lived 10 more years without ever pooping in my yard. You think she was trying to tell my neighbor something?

Im pretty sure my pooch is being a little passive aggressive about the neighbors dog

If their dog bum rushes us, you can pretty much guarantee she's gonna poop smack dab in the middle of their driveway the next time we walk by

 

[CalG]

20 years ago

we didn't see a grey fox walk through the yard a week ago, and a red fox walk through tonight as we sat out on the back deck having supper.

 

[brewdog]

We used to see wild Ring Neck Pheasants in all the fields and woods rows. They would run around with the cows. None around today. Coyotes have taken over Pennsylvania.

 

[WinterDeere]

We used to see wild Ring Neck Pheasants in all the fields and woods rows. They would run around with the cows. None around today. Coyotes have taken over Pennsylvania.

We don't have many coyotes in the east, but like you, our pheasant also disappeared. It happened here in the mid-1980's, right around the time I turned old enough to start hunting pheasant on our family farms. I have only seen maybe 2 or 3 wild pheasant since 1990, it was like someone flipped a switch, around 1986-88, and all our pheasant went away.

We still have miles and miles of Canada geese though. You'd think the environment where one thrives, shouldn't be all that terrible for the other?