Ladybugs that stash in your house instead of in a log end up waking from winter dormancy earlier than their prey does. They inevitably starve and exhaust their calories. In an old house you can sometimes discover a nook somewhere and uncover a graveyard of thousands of them.
I find electric cars louder than the current engines most of the time. The space travel noises they put out while driving are louder than say a non hybrid Camry, not to mention ICE cars don’t make any backing up noises. Parallel parking of electric cars is so annoying. Hybrids too, I can hear the whining of a Prius coming down the street from half a block away.
This is not to say I’m against electric and hybrid cars, I’m all for them. But the fake noises they added are not a benefit.
Weird, my experience has been that EVs are much quieter and that's a real improvement in densely populated areas. Past a certain speed the main source of noise is the tires and then EVs aren't much better than ICE vehicles (wrt noise).
Im in a super dense area. Speed limit is really low. So tire noise is not that big of a factor and the WOOOOOOO of electric cars is prevalent over others. Obviously comparing apples to apples, a diesel truck is going to be super loud.
Most traffic noise these days comes from tire noise on roads not the engine, save for muscle cars and the occasional truck I guess. Evs are just as noisy if not moreso because their added weight.
I have watched seagulls commuting back and forth at midnight, as city lighting at scale around a large harbour seems to work for some of them.
Country gulls still commute at regular diurnal schedules, or at least there still isn't enough light to watch things flying at night.
I have watched crows that specialise in catching stuned insects on the verges where a busy hyway intersects a large stretch of mature healthy forest, but not anywhere else.Though I can see smaller birds getting used to crumbs and ends bieng tossed from early commuters breakfasts on the fly.
This is not to say I’m against electric and hybrid cars, I’m all for them. But the fake noises they added are not a benefit.
Motorbikes, trucks and cars make up the majority of noise where I live.
The teslas/BYDs pass without you noticing them.
One bike with a straight pipe though, more noise than the suburb's worth of traffic localised to wherever they inflict themselves.