Something has gone wrong for insects, says Cambridgeshire charity
August 4, 2024
Something has gone wrong for insects, says Cambridgeshire charity
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7924v502wo
Posted by MaffeoPolo
20 comments
We gon’ die.
Any chance mosquitoes could get extinct soon? I know that’d be a disaster for the environment but since we’re all already fucked anyway I wouldn’t mind see them all die first
Build everything full of concrete in pursuit of the capitalist infinite growth meme.
Why are there no bugs anymore, scientists wonder?
Fuckers are all in my house after I came back from holiday.
Fruit flies, moths, butterflies and flies.
And judging from my car windscreen they aren’t doing too bad number wise.
Not sure I could handle more bugs!
Probably necessary for ecosystem unfortunately. Probably pesticide doing the damage on farms and car pollution
Somebody wanted money. That’s what went wrong for insects.
as a child in the 90s I remember going around the block and catching bunch of cool bugs with my hands because they were everywhere
now I can’t find one if I try
ditto for driving in rural highways, before the car would be coated with bugs in an hour now you can drive all day and not even clean your windows
I live in a rural wetland. There’s nearly no bugs. And all the frogs died after an early thaw. wtf. There should be tons of bugs.
Gee… I wonder if exploding over 5,000 nuclear bombs on, under, over, underwater, on the water, above the water… the planet has anything to do with it. You know… radiation?
Good thing there’s monsanto to shift blame to, huh?
Really noticeable in Ireland the last couple years due to the weather. Almost constant wind and rain so no bees or butterflys.
Probably a combination of global climate change ie warming ,pesticides ,habitat destruction, people letting invasive species in different areas etc
as late as 2014 I remember insects being more common, I remember them splashing into the windshield of my dad’s truck. That’s simply not a thing anymore
Who remembers the windscreens and lights covered in them bugs.
‘Climate Change’ is really too kind of a term for what we have done to this planet and what’s coming.
Christmas beetles (Anoplognathus pallidicollis) have pretty well vanished from Australia. They are an east coast native and their arrival used to herald Christmas. I’d spend my summers picking them off the fly-screens when I was a child. Haven’t seen a single one in over a decade.
Is that something humans? I’ll take humans for $1000
The number of fireflies near me has dramatically decreased.
This year the difference is stark. Hardly any bees, no butterflies, not hearing any grasshoppers or buzzing flies. Only seen a couple of wasps all summer.
Good. Fuck mosquitoes
life can only make so many adaptations to environments at such a pace.
20 comments
We gon’ die.
Any chance mosquitoes could get extinct soon? I know that’d be a disaster for the environment but since we’re all already fucked anyway I wouldn’t mind see them all die first
Build everything full of concrete in pursuit of the capitalist infinite growth meme.
Why are there no bugs anymore, scientists wonder?
Fuckers are all in my house after I came back from holiday.
Fruit flies, moths, butterflies and flies.
And judging from my car windscreen they aren’t doing too bad number wise.
Not sure I could handle more bugs!
Probably necessary for ecosystem unfortunately. Probably pesticide doing the damage on farms and car pollution
Somebody wanted money. That’s what went wrong for insects.
as a child in the 90s I remember going around the block and catching bunch of cool bugs with my hands because they were everywhere
now I can’t find one if I try
ditto for driving in rural highways, before the car would be coated with bugs in an hour now you can drive all day and not even clean your windows
I live in a rural wetland. There’s nearly no bugs. And all the frogs died after an early thaw. wtf. There should be tons of bugs.
Gee… I wonder if exploding over 5,000 nuclear bombs on, under, over, underwater, on the water, above the water… the planet has anything to do with it. You know… radiation?
Good thing there’s monsanto to shift blame to, huh?
Really noticeable in Ireland the last couple years due to the weather. Almost constant wind and rain so no bees or butterflys.
Probably a combination of global climate change ie warming ,pesticides ,habitat destruction, people letting invasive species in different areas etc
as late as 2014 I remember insects being more common, I remember them splashing into the windshield of my dad’s truck. That’s simply not a thing anymore
Who remembers the windscreens and lights covered in them bugs.
‘Climate Change’ is really too kind of a term for what we have done to this planet and what’s coming.
Christmas beetles (Anoplognathus pallidicollis) have pretty well vanished from Australia. They are an east coast native and their arrival used to herald Christmas. I’d spend my summers picking them off the fly-screens when I was a child. Haven’t seen a single one in over a decade.
Is that something humans? I’ll take humans for $1000
The number of fireflies near me has dramatically decreased.
This year the difference is stark. Hardly any bees, no butterflies, not hearing any grasshoppers or buzzing flies. Only seen a couple of wasps all summer.
Good. Fuck mosquitoes
life can only make so many adaptations to environments at such a pace.
just import more foreign bees
/j incase