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Half the tree of life is going extinct

https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/06/half-tree-of-life-is-going-extinct.html

#ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateChange #Insectageddon

@VeroniqueB99 Yes. It’s also very clear that our cars collide with far fewer #insects at night than they did during the 1970s. #insectageddon

3-Apr-2025
‘Some #insects are declining but what’s happening to the other 99%?’
Despite fears over ‘#insectageddon’, there is a lack of data about virtually all insect species globally, so a research rethink is needed

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079213 #science #ecology #conservation

Plenty of Ragwort around the garden, but where are the caterpillars? #Norfolk #insectageddon #biodiversityloss

Plenty of Ragwort all around the garden, but where are the caterpillars?

This, on the other hand, is a glimmer of doom. The #insectageddon has ramifications - not just for insects, but for all species that depend on insects in some ways from fish to birds to mammals, to both crops and wild plants that depend on insects pollination. And the EPA does this because the US #Agricultural industry chooses not to move to less toxic practices for pest control? #IntegratedPestManagement at the more invasive end, #Organic and #RegenerativeAgriculture at the least invasive end are widely practiced. Why do we tolerate #IndustrialAgriculture while knowing about the damage it does?

Perhaps you could contact your Senators and Representative in Washington and ask them to do something? It's easy to find their contact info at https://www.congress.gov/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/08/us-epa-toxic-pesticides-paralyse-bees-insects?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#Insectageddon: Is there a better way to describe distinct political movements in four different Mideast nations, each with a social base in a minority or majority population of those countries, than by comparing them to flesh-eating parasites injected by a foreign insect? Well, yeah—lots of them.
#BiPartisanWeaponsComplexGivesAShitAboutPovertyHumanRightsSegregationClimateAndInequality
#LegacyMediaMisInformationDoesNotSeeFascism
#AntiSemitismChargesAboutGazaAreHolocaustDenial

https://fair.org/home/action-alert-friedmans-vermin-analogies-echo-ugly-pro-genocide-propaganda/

Flying insect numbers plunge 64% since 2004, @Buglife UK #SplatterTest survey finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/flying-insect-numbers-plunge-64-since-2004-uk-survey-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#InsectDecline #insectageddon #insects #ecology

Some excellent graphics in this Reuters piece exploring the state of #InsectDecline & the extent of our knowledge.

"[Insects are] the fabric tethering together every freshwater & terrestrial ecosystem across the planet.”

"The world has lost 5%-10% of all insect species in the last 150 years... 250,000 and 500,000 species"

#SciComm #Insects #Entomology #biodiversity #InsectApocalypse #insectageddon

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/

If you think you should be worried about the decline of insect populations but actually feel like it's a good thing because you don't like them: follow the money; pest exterminators and pesticide manufacturers have spent your whole life trying to make you hate them and kill them. #insectageddon

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature

#Insects could be GONE by the end of this century. Adios.

The 2.5% rate of annual loss over the last 25-30 years is “shocking”, Sánchez-Bayo told the #Guardian: “It is very rapid. In 10 years you will have a quarter less, in 50 years only half left and in 100 years you will have none.”

#insectageddon #ecosystems #6thmassextinction