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I’m from the South so I feel your pain, people are painfully ignorant. I’m more interested in the fact that you said the woods sound and smell different, could you elaborate?

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Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This will be hard to put into words. I figure it’s a result of climate change/global warming.

There was an eartheir note in the smell when I was a kid. Now I smell more clay and piss, I think the piss smell is from the insects changing. I smell less oak and a lot more privet. Less walnut and pecan sharp smells. Lots of a green smell that I only used to know in high spring. Fungus and wood rot way more often. Something like cut grass even in February.

There was a constant whine and buzz. It was a background noise and is mostly gone. There was always knocking in the trees and it happens way less. The ground had a buzz and shuffle that is way less, even though big beetles move through.

There are new whinings, there’s a deeper buzz.

It’s all subjective, it’s different, things have changed.

I’m trying to put words to this, but it’s like trying to talk about the way water feels.

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- Yokozuna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I appreciate you taking the time to describe that. I’ve always thought about the effects on local fauna and flora and the shifting upwards of temperatures and thus shifting biomes and potential farmland upwards as well. And what you’re describing kind of fits the description.
  
  I feel like something bigger is going on though. People around the states have noticed bug populations down in populated areas, I don’t know about anything outside of here though. Things are changing and the way science works it’s typically slow to react.
  
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