Latest research indicates that over three quarters of our insect populations have died out over just twenty seven years.
This is horrendous.
Insects form the basis of most food webs. Without them amphibia, reptiles and many mammals and birds will die out. Without the smaller creatures the bigger creatures are at risk.
What would a summer be without swallows, swifts and housemartins soaring and diving through the air, without hedgehogs snuffling in the garden, without frogspawn in the ponds and streams?
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809
That is so sad! I hate it when people step on bugs like hello they’re important!!
They are fundamental. Because people find them creepy they want rid of them. The trouble is that they’re chucking everything else away too.
Yeah exactly!! Insects are creepy to me too but I usually try to throw them out instead.
Same here!! Protect them (apart from spiders – which are evil and eat friendly insects!).
I know that bugs are important – they give me the creeps.
That is the problem with most people but we have to learn to love our bugs. I used to have stag beetles in my bedroom flying about at night. I loved ants. Bugs are great.
It was hard for me to “like” this post. What ARE we doing to this small planet that is our home? And for what? Money?
xx,
mgh
We might gain the whole world but lose our souls.
If things don’t change, I doubt we’ll even gain the world. Or, more to the point, that the world will remain worth gaining.
xx,
mgh
When we’re gone it will recover. It won’t ever be the same but it’ll probably be as magnificent as it was.