Death of all Garden Spiders last year, none in 2023-- because Sun Gone
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I have not seen one single Garden Spider in all of 2023. I kept 4 large female garden spiders in my house and released them in Spring of 2023, hoping they would flourish and multiply. None did.
Death of all Garden Spiders last year, none in 2023-- because Sun Gone Red Giant Phase
On the Internet, there is more news of Garden Spider deaths as seen below.
I suspect the reason and for "flying insects" is the Sun's increasing radiation 0.005% yearly increase that the spiders and flying insects become toasted in that Sunshine.
--- Quoting the Internet ---
2020 Apr 15;11(4):248. doi: 10.3390/insects11040248.
Where Have All the Spiders Gone? Observations of a Dramatic Population Density Decline in the Once Very Abundant Garden Spider, Araneus diadematus (Araneae: Araneidae), in the Swiss Midland
Martin Nyffeler 1 , Dries Bonte 2
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PMID: 32326490 PMCID: PMC7240396 DOI: 10.3390/insects11040248
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Abstract
Aerial web-spinning spiders (including large orb-weavers), as a group, depend almost entirely on flying insects as a food source. The recent widespread loss of flying insects across large parts of western Europe, in terms of both diversity and biomass,
can therefore be anticipated to have a drastic negative impact on the survival and abundance of this type of spider. To test the putative importance of such a hitherto neglected trophic cascade, a survey of population densities of the European garden
spider Araneus diadematus-a large orb-weaving species-was conducted in the late summ