We still have very small insects flying around and slightly larger ones to eat them, including bug-hunting Cherry-Faced Meadowhawk Dragonflies such as this one. The various and tough Meadowhawk species often survive through the first few sustained frosts, which we’ve not had, and probably won’t have.

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The historic average low and high for October here on the coast are 39 and 57 degrees Fahrenheit. Freezing weather occasionally occurs here in October: the record low for us was 18 degrees in October of 1972. It can get warm: our record high for the month here was 82 degrees in 1968. (Brooklin, Maine)

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