1 year ago15 points(+0/-0/+15Score on mirror)1 child
Much more concerning is the well-being of everything that eats insects, and everything that eats them. Bugs are one step above plants in the food chain.
When it comes to making things worse for everyone else, I assume active malice on their behalf. Theyre retarded when it comes to actual self-preservation, but more than competent when it comes to havoc
1 year ago14 points(+0/-0/+14Score on mirror)4 children
In the 1990s, I had a “butterfly bush “ in my flowerbed. 50 monarch butterflies at a time, all day, every day during their seasonal presence here. Gorgeous.
Now monarch butterflies are “functionally extinct in the wild” because glyphosate has been used to kill all the milkweed that grew alongside roads on their path from Mexico to the northern United States.
I haven’t been out much in the evening or night this summer, so I can’t speak to the totality of lightning bugs, but I saw a few in June. I see bees, but we’ve been [slaughtering](https://archive.ph/sNxga) bees [wholesale](https://archive.ph/VJ1sf) for decades now.
Kill all wild bees and no one can grow backyard gardens. They have to get “food” from megacorporations.
1 year ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
I live in a semi-rural areas with large abandonned farmlands, so large zones with no pesticides.
Lots of bees, bumblebees and wasps. Several wasps nests in ornamental crops around here ( almost no pesticide used. Costumers don't want plants they need to spray with chemicals. ).
They will recolonize easily as long as there remains large areas that don't get drenched in pesticides.
Lighthning bugs only live where there is no artificial light. They have massively receeded over the past 75 years. I have only seen them away from roads in rural areas and natural forests.
Have towns near you expanded? I suspect insect populations are based far more on your local area than farms dozens of miles away spraying pesticides. I think most insect loss people are noticing is just because most people live near metropolitan sprawl hellscapes. The bugs in my area seemed fine until the city started encroaching less than 15 years ago.
1 year ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
Bugs have extremely fast generational cycles.
Fields and forests **not** drenched in pesticides are still crawling with bugs as usual, and they will quickly re-colonize former ecological niches, either when pesticides use decreases, or they develop a resistance.
And since dimwits keep brigning ''MUH BEES EXTINCTION WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE'' : there are THOUSANDS of species of pollinators which are doing fine, and most crops do not need pollinators ( ex : corn is fertilized by wind carrying the pollen ).
But some large monocultures ( ex : almond trees ) do use inbred domestic bees to increase yeild by more intensive pollination. This is usually when the domestic bees poison themselves by going on crops that carry pesticide residues, ex : neonicotinoid residues in nearby ponds or pollen and nectar.
Domestic bees are also plagued with parasites they have little resistance against. That is a job for better selective breeding to fix. Maby we find some other ways ( ex if we find another tiny species of bug that will kill varroa parasites without hurting bees ).
Male Mosquitos are actually one of the bigger ones. The females are smaller and drink blood, but the big,scary looking males are completely harmless and pollinate flowers
1 year ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
>to destroy the all
Only within origination can there be destruction aka only within motion (inception towards death) can matter (life) be destroyed.
Few suggest destruction to tempt many to ignore growing during origination by holding onto what they don't want destroyed. If matter holds onto other matter within motion, then matter drowns faster.
Most of those dead bugs probably aren't even the bad ones, like wasps and mosquitoes, since I see those a lot.
It is probably Firelies, Butterflies, and bees that are dying, since it is rare to see those now, and they used to be common, around as common as th' others.
1 year ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)2 children
Would mean somehow those pesticides got into the deepest parts of the
Amazon. Such a die-out would trigger an insane chain reaction in the food chain.
I agree there's probably a rather dire reduction in insects in the west, a windshield test would attest to that.
There has been a huge chain reaction in the food chain, especially with birds (nature's natural pestocide). And the figures shouldn't phase us, by now we all know that statistics are used to convey a message moreso than organize information. The point is there has been a huge reduction in insects and we all have noticed it.
As for the jungles, pesticides and other airborne poisons do indeed get into them. The Gates foundation has bragged about spraying the Amazon with chemicals. Not to mention deforestation... 1/2 to 3/4 figure worldwide sounds believable to me.
But the number isnt the point. The message is that insects are dying out rapidly; there is no need to nitpick the statistics.
Try to grow a garden and then tell me there has been a 75% reduction in insects. In my opinion, the insect population has way more to do with the weather (specifically how hard the previous winter was) than manmade factors.
1 year ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)2 children
went to an outdoor Baroque concert Monday that lasted 1 hr 15 min and my wife counted 39 mosquito bites on my back (they bit me thru my dress shirt) and I have probably 10 on my left arm, 5 on my right arm, 10 more on my legs and one on each ear and another on my throat.
Mosquitoes are like rats: The larger the concentration of humans, and as long as the environment is suitable for them to reproduce, the more of them there will be.
Stop with your retard take and READ THE BIBLE: Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.