I remember seeing a segment by David Suzuki I think about how bee populations are actually healthier in some respects inside urban areas than they are in many rural areas, due to the spread of large scale monocrop cash crop agriculture. Backyards in urban areas combined with parks are in some ways more diverse than a lot of the midwest/great lakes cash cropped region at this point :-(

I’ve lived in to “garden districts” and I always shut my trap when population collapses are discussed because in my area everything goes great.

I let an area go fallow last year and I’m still trying to identify some of the insects I saw. Lots of parasitoid wasps. This year it’s smaller and the weather is drier and hotter so the flowers I believe are little late. Also because it’s hot I’m and there’s more things to look at and do, I’m spending less time observing. It does still feel like this might be a worse year than last, but in this area at least I know there’s a reservoir of diversity than can still be cultivated.