Monday, 3 September 2012

Fun Online Polls: Midges and Tree diseases

With a reasonable turnout of 88 for such a left field question, the responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:

Have you noticed more midges than usual this summer?

No, fewer than usual - 42%
Yes - 36%
No, same as usual - 22%


That's me told then. I could have sworn there are/were more than usual, perhaps I was jsut unlucky this year. Or maybe it's very localised - more in some areas, fewer in others?
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Sticking with the nature theme, the BBC informs us that there is an "Unprecedented threat for UK trees from pests". Sub-text: boody foreign pests, coming over here, taking our jobs, killing our trees.

They list five such nasty diseases/pests, which one do you think sounds scariest?

Vote here or use the widget in the sidebar.

1 comments:

Robin Smith said...

Going out on the bike in forests all over the shop regularly there has been less of them this year. But I did see a noticeable widening in the range of size of itchy bite patch to previous years. The was a universe induced change in weather pattern this year though.