Vanishing species

How many free public loos remain, available at point of need? This one, set back down a short alley off Quay Street beside the old harbour, appears to be the one that time forgot. Elsewhere it costs 40p to spend a penny. Assuming you can locate one of the two public conveniences left in town and have the right coin. 

Likewise the catastrophic decline in invertebrates continues, as evidenced by the numbers of 'splats' counted on car number plates. 

"The latest (2022) Bugs Matter report has found that the number of flying insects sampled by citizen scientists across the UK reduced by a worrying 64% between 2004 and 2022. This is a 5% greater decline than that observed between 2004 and 2021."
The loss of pollinators now threatens our food security. Less pollination, less fruit and veg.

Extra is the first oil beetle I have seen this year. For a horrible moment I though I had injured her with my spade but after minute or two she crawled off unharmed.

Two out of five species of UK oil beetle are thought to have been  lost already and those that remain are threatened by the disappearance of solitary bees, in whose nests the larvae spend part of their life cycle.

See here for more about them.