Our wildlife, indigenous wildlife that is, will be quite able to cope with what is being thrown at it. It's just a cold April, nothing more. They have evolved to deal with conditions like this and far worse besides. Numbers of individual species may go up and down but that's just the normal course of things.
I work with indigeonous wildlife on a professional level and have done for decades.......
Field crickets have lived here for about 8000 years. Like Butterflies, Orthopterans, specifically Ensiferans, are indicators of environmental health. Aside from the fact we have reduced their numbers by habitat fragmentation and destruction, something new is occuring.
Of our recent reintrodutions (of which I was part of) to ostensibly suitable historic sites, unusual weather events in every case have wiped some of those primarily successful reintroductions out without warning.
You cannot accept that we are breaking climate records on the one hand and also claim that it is 'normal' for our native wildlife on the other. That is illogical. One of those claims is going to be incompatible with the facts. New climactic phenomena in most cases is not complaint with a biological niche in such a short time frame. The facts are bearing this out.
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