we run and hide our heads....
we've had maybe 3 inches in the last 10 months, normally we'd have had 30 inches in that same period (end of last year and beginning of this one). I cancelled bug walks in August because flowers didn't appear, where as RDO was the golden year round insect foraging place, previously.

Here, bush sunflower bloomed less and for a shorter time than usual. Buckwheat was abundant, but also short lived.

I have a magic mile at RDO, form the coast highway a .75 mile walk into the Ranger Hut, things that should have stopped keep on going and until this drought I had 23 different species in bloom for 2.5 years, a photo record every month. But last year made it 5 species. the summer fog gets heavy enough to make light rainfall, and today it rained lightly for 30 minutes in the 1st mile, but not further inland. Considering I tromp probably 8-10,000 different acres of Big Basin redwoods State park each year, that is a tiny area still supporting some diversity. Studies show the redwoods are moving north in Oregon fast, where they've never been before.

So, going through my files, I didn't see about 2/3rds of the syrpids in RDO this year.