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Anecdata, but I feel like I don't see that many bugs in general since the 1990s (born in mid-80s). In my adult life I don't bother buying bug spray or citronella candles anymore, butterflies don't seasonally pass overhead, crickets are very quiet in the fields, and picnics rarely get raided by ants.

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When I was a kid in the 1970’s and early 80’s, my grandparents would drive 100’s of miles along I-95 to visit us from Florida and arrive with the grille and windshield of their car absolutely splattered with bug corpses. You can make that same drive today without killing a fly.

Side note: We also used to see long caravans of migrating birds flying south in the fall. Thousands of them at least, traveling overhead in a steady stream for 15 minutes or more.

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