Insects wanted
Birds come from all over the hemisphere to eat in the Adirondacks.Think it can be buggy in the summer? So do birds. Summer's the best of times, and the worst for insects.
Imagine the mayfly with its one day on the wing, and flocks of birds timing their migration to meet that day. Take spiders. Many birds see them as the best bugs. First they eat them, then take their webs to tie their nests together. All those lost spiders would sound like good news for flying insects, but then come the baby birds. Millions are born, and fed. Some adult birds in the Adirondacks can eat 5,000 bugs in a day. That's not including what they might catch to feed to their nestlings.
This week they'll be bugs, and birds, and trees being picked clean of the insects that would devour them if the birds weren't here.