Last year the Gulf Frits showed up in mid July and there were hundreds of them which was highly unusual for my area. I was wondering if all the chemical dispersants they used for the oil spill was giving them brain damage and confusing them. The year before they showed up in September and with a moderate, pretty much normal population. This year they started showing up in mid August and have been very sparse. I doubt I've seen more than 30 of them since I first sighted them.
This Summer has been one of the coolest and wettest on record for this area. Long range forecast for the southeast is calling for a colder than normal winter .. the last two winters were way warmer than normal. In fact we had a week of mid 70's this past January and was afraid it was going to be a banner bug year because of only 3 really hard freezes but all the rains we had toward the end of Spring until the mid Summer apparently drowned a lot.
