Insects around the world are in a crisis, according to a small but growing number of long-term studies showing dramatic declines in invertebrate populations. A new report suggests that the problem is more widespread than scientists realized. Huge numbers of bugs have been lost in a pristine national forest in Puerto Rico, the study found, and the forest’s insect-eating animals have gone missing, too.
In 2014, an international team of biologists estimated that, in the past 35 years, the abundance of invertebrates such as beetles and bees had decreased by 45 percent. In places where long-term insect data are available, mainly in Europe, insect numbers are plummeting. A study last year showed a 76 percent decrease in flying insects in the past few decades in German nature preserves.
The latest report, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that this startling loss of insect abundance extends to the Americas. The study’s authors implicate climate change in the loss of tropical invertebrates.
“This study in PNAS is a real wake-up call — a clarion call — that the phenomenon could be much, much bigger, and across many more ecosystems,” said David Wagner, an expert in invertebrate conservation at the University of Connecticut who was not involved with this research.
He added: “This is one of the most disturbing articles I have ever read.”
"This is one of the most important articles in human history, and it's barely making headlines. Arthropods make up 85% of species on Earth, and now we have multiple studies on multiple continents indicating 50% to 98% dropoff. We are not talking about a few centimeters elevated sea level when the poles theoretically, eventually melt. This is an utter catastrophe in progress that cannot be overstated. These animals thrived for hundreds of millions of years – up until recently. This headline for this article might as well be, "Half of life on Earth has died in the last 40 years."
You mean the chemicals that monsanto says are safe the plastic trash the massive hormone birth control shit women take is contributing to massive wildlife loss? you dont say.
Nathan Johnson
Apparently it's impossible to grow plants in modernity without spraying them with a fuck ton of chemicals. How'd our ancestors feed themselves before the advent of all these chemicals that allow us to do agriculture for the first time in our history? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Gavin Clark
Let me help slide those fuckers some more. Heading off to bump the crab thread.
Thomas Campbell
Are you just pretending to not understand? It is impossible to grow enough food when
Lincoln Murphy
We already do that with all those unwanted pets, put down, ground up, dished out to Fluffy and Felix. It's only a matter of time until the elites do it with humans too.
sure has a well developed physique for such an idiot
Henry Martinez
That's not a real photograph.
Jackson Hernandez
Yes. A warmer more CO2 rich environment is killing the bugs. Jesus how retarded do you need to be? How about we talk about the use of pesticides like round-up?
Jackson Cook
Imagine being so unintelligent that you know about the multiple extinction events throughout Earths history but you think slight cooling will somehow end the multiple hundreds of billions of years that life has existed on this horrific rock.
Angel Torres
You know that insects have a specific temperature range based on each species right? You know there are bugs that die in warmer climates, right? You're not that stupid to think all insects will do well in a warm environment because "bugs live in the jungles and shit"
Jeremiah Williams
i'd rather be a muscular shithead than an overweight pseudointellectual tranny
Aiden Brown
Yes, and? I don't see the problem. If you think there's gonna be mass starvation or that the government is gonna start grinding people into soylent you're literally retarded. Even if the bees go missing you don't think we'll just invent some other bullshit to spray on plants? Or that we need bees to plant wheat or hay to feed cows? Fuck off, you're humanity's cuckolds with no faith. Literally all you need in the world is: Congratulations, you're fed for life.
The population of China has doubled in that amount of time. Obviously other forms of life have to make way for the billions of human beings we seem to want to exist.
