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Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
The abundance of flying insects has plunged by three-quarters over the past 25 years, according to a new study that has shocked scientists. Insects are an integral part of life on Earth as both pollinators and prey for other wildlife and it was known that some species such as butterflies were declining. But the newly revealed scale of the losses to all insects has prompted warnings that the world is “on course for ecological Armageddon”, with profound impacts on human society.
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In a world where many don't even care for human lives, what chance do insects have?
All of our cleaning products, fracking, and Monsanto poisons ends up in the grass lakes streams ground. Of course we are killing the planet.
How does this compare to bird populations? Animal birth rates run in cycles. If there's been a peak in bird pops, this could partly explain the downturn in bug pops.
Nope.