Summer Insect Notes

This has been a strange one.  This past summer, I mean.  Oh, the weather is strange all the time, it seems; I don't even know what normal is anymore.  But this summer was unusual in another way that may or may not have had anything to do with weather.

One of the biggest news items in the world of entomology was the lack of monarch butterflies.  I only saw six or seven all summer and I saw fewer monarch caterpillars than that. We sort of knew that one was coming.  Last...