Denver (KDVR) – It is the reputable Miller mission season to float on the roof around Colorado, in homes, cars and even your store, but this year, it seems not equal.
The butterfly wing said that Miller’s mites usually appear in about April or May and migrate to Colorado across the front range in early June before flying to the mountains.
However, this year, there was not much – there is a reason for it.
Where did Miller moth?
According to Francisco Garcia Paul Bueno, Director of Science and Conservation at the Butterfly Pavilion, Colorado has seen much lower than Miller’s mites than usual, which is due to a mixture of factors such as low survival rates during the Equish larvae or pesticide.
But this year, there was a big factor that was the weather.
The rain days filled the expectations in Denver, which were more than usual for a 300 -day city of sunlight. Along with rainy weather, it also caused a fewer mites in the area.
Beno said that the most cold and wet spring conditions have been displaced in the rural areas instead of focusing in urbanism because the rain brought an abundance of natural nectar sources.
One of the possibilities could be that rain has east of mites to different areas; However, Bueno said it is difficult to follow because insects are small and mobile, and many factors in the environment can affect the population.
While mites can float on the roof in your home, the pavilion said it plays a vital role in ecosystems, which is a night -edition and is a dietary source of animals. Annual changes can also bear deeper importance, as dramatic decreases can indicate disturbances in climate patterns, land use changes, or pesticides and habitat loss.