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Putin's Voluntaryist (OP) User ID: 75012031 United States 02/11/2019 10:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | GLPers are noticing- Thread: Where have all the insects gone?! Thread: Remember when your car windshield and grill would be covered with smashed insects? Notice how it's not happening lately? BUG DOOM Thread: insect loss Thread: Anyone else notice a lack if certain insects and an over abundance of others? Thread: Missing Bugs. I Was Just Thinking of Some of the Insects I Used to See All the Time but Not Much Anymore Last Edited by STAX on 02/11/2019 10:10 PM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77304979 United States 02/11/2019 10:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 10 Human Zika babies were reason enough to create genetically altered mosquitos that would infiltrated and diminish the insect population. Did the scientists not realize that those insects were a food source for thousands of animals likes frog, birds, fish, etc. |
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LTHN. User ID: 77103050 Canada 02/11/2019 10:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Makes sense, more people on the earth, more people squishing bugs, therefore less bugs. "A wise man listens to the message and uses his logic and discernment to process it, a fool negates the message by prejudging the messenger." "He whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." |
Jungleboogie User ID: 76648271 Canada 02/11/2019 10:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Rense has an entire section on eyewitness accounts, very interesting reading. Scroll down on the right to read it: [link to rense.com (secure)] Embrace the cognitive dissonance. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 75147420 United States 02/11/2019 10:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nearly half of all insect species worldwide are in rapid decline and a third could disappear altogether, according to a study warning of dire consequences for crop pollination and natural food chains. Quoting: Putin's Voluntaryist "Unless we change our way of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades," concluded the peer-reviewed study, which is set for publication in April. The recent decline in bugs that fly, crawl, burrow and skitter across still water is part of a gathering "mass extinction," only the sixth in the last half-billion years. "We are witnessing the largest extinction event on Earth since the late Permian and Cretaceous periods," the authors noted. ... The study, to be published in the journal Biological Conservation, pulled together data from more than 70 datasets from across the globe, some dating back more than a century. By a large margin, habitat change—deforestation, urbanisation, conversion to farmland—emerged as the biggest cause of insect decline and extinction threat. Next was pollution and the widespread use of pesticides in commercial agriculture. The recent collapse, for example, of many bird species in France was traced to the use insecticides on industrial crops such as wheat, barley, corn and wine grapes. "There are hardly any insects left—that's the number one problem," said Vincent Bretagnolle, an ecologist at Centre for Biological Studies. ... Britain has seen a measurable decline across 60 percent of its large insect groups, or taxa, followed by North America (51 percent) and Europe as a whole (44 percent). MORE: [link to phys.org (secure)] Every spring we used to get ants. Last few years none. Also, the snakes are gone...it was the joke all summer every year, me screaming from almost stepping on a snake. Not anymore....really sad. My father used to name the snakes around our house when I was a kid. My grandson and I followed one for a couple summers. We named him Red. I believe this may be true. |
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1-2-Follow User ID: 73055204 United States 02/11/2019 10:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Still ton of mosquitos around here. But the last 3 years i have killed milions of bugs using the dynatrap. No telling how many others are using them. Still plenty bugs to go around in this area though We even had fireflies this year for the first time since i was a kid! Last Edited by 1-2-Follow on 02/11/2019 10:49 PM Articles and "news" from liberal media shall now be known as catnip for libtards. Truth is schilling in the empire of retards. "Yep but for now we dub you toast guy." - AC520845 *PROCLAIMED PROPHET OF THE DOW* ® Let me know when the climate STOPS changing, then i'll be worried. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77313496 United States 02/11/2019 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nearly half of all insect species worldwide are in rapid decline and a third could disappear altogether, according to a study warning of dire consequences for crop pollination and natural food chains. Quoting: Putin's Voluntaryist "Unless we change our way of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades," concluded the peer-reviewed study, which is set for publication in April. The recent decline in bugs that fly, crawl, burrow and skitter across still water is part of a gathering "mass extinction," only the sixth in the last half-billion years. "We are witnessing the largest extinction event on Earth since the late Permian and Cretaceous periods," the authors noted. ... The study, to be published in the journal Biological Conservation, pulled together data from more than 70 datasets from across the globe, some dating back more than a century. By a large margin, habitat change—deforestation, urbanisation, conversion to farmland—emerged as the biggest cause of insect decline and extinction threat. Next was pollution and the widespread use of pesticides in commercial agriculture. The recent collapse, for example, of many bird species in France was traced to the use insecticides on industrial crops such as wheat, barley, corn and wine grapes. "There are hardly any insects left—that's the number one problem," said Vincent Bretagnolle, an ecologist at Centre for Biological Studies. ... Britain has seen a measurable decline across 60 percent of its large insect groups, or taxa, followed by North America (51 percent) and Europe as a whole (44 percent). MORE: [link to phys.org (secure)] I've noticed. I plant a garden every year and I didn't have many pest problems the last couple of years. Hardly see grasshoppers anymore and last year the flies were absent most of the summer. Not complaining about that, I hate the damn flies. Ladybugs are still around though, wintering in my walls it seems. Anyway, if the insects go, the birds will be next. Or maybe they will survive off my cat food. I have a steady stream of little birds taking the cat food away daily, piece by piece. |
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Wondering Mind User ID: 73265267 United States 02/11/2019 11:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Aware of the dire situation with Insect Life. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76539141 With so many things being parts of systems of things, this is a Canary in the Coal-Mine. In this case nobody gets-out alive. . Yes, when you have the seeds to plant even if they grow without pollinators they bare no harvest. They become ornamental outside decor with all the rest of ornamental shrubs and trees. Last Edited by Wondering Mind on 02/11/2019 11:03 PM The most precious things are the simple things in life, always present in the simplest of minds. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76228962 United States 02/11/2019 11:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Makes sense, more people on the earth, more people squishing bugs, therefore less bugs. Quoting: LTHN. humans are wiping out other forms of life due to their inability to control their exponential birth rate. human expansion is constantly compressing the environment thus forcing species to survive with less and less. thats the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. |
FREDERICK FLINTSTONE User ID: 77047067 Canada 02/11/2019 11:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Doom of a different nature ... not good "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." Albert Bartlett |
FREDERICK FLINTSTONE User ID: 77047067 Canada 02/11/2019 11:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.nature.com (secure)] <snip> Flying insects are disappearing from German skies The country has lost three-quarters of its aerial insects since 1989. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." Albert Bartlett |
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