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

[paulsharvey]

With coyotes in specific, they have a lot of advantages; they are semi social, unlike bobcats/panthers; they arent viewed as an urgent thread by humans, unlike wolves; they do well eating many things from fawns, turkey, cats, trash, ect. They are really adaptable too, from dang near deserts, to swamps, and near semi artic to semi tropical. They also are fast breeding.

 

[Jstpssng]

I saw a grey fox yesterday, possibly for the first time in my life. At one time they (apparently) were common, but red fox get along better with civilization.

 

[paulsharvey]

One thing I've seen more lately, otters. Honestly, more often either road killed, or seen crossing then road, then in what I would call strictly a natural environment

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

Yes, that's correct. The "modern" coyote is only 10,000 years old. The coyotes migrating into Florida as much as 3 million years ago were their ancestors.

And they died out.

 

[lman]

I saw an Otter in the river behind my house and a Bobcat was on my trailcam. Don't believe they were around here when I was a kid, 50 years ago. Pheasants and quail were around back then, not now.