Does everyone understand that, without insects, life of this planet is extinct? https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/index.html
@TwiHusband It's scary, you can see their decline. When I was a child, there were dozens of moths by my porch light at any given time, and now there might be one or two.
@tippitiwichet I grew up in Northwestern Ohio. Spent 55 years of my life there. Two benchmark groups, bees and butterflies were in obvious decline for nearly 40 years. I noticed the bees thinning out LONG before the media did. But hey, we killed lots of mosquitoes, didn't we?
@tippitiwichet I can still recall mosquito trucks cruising the neighborhood when I was a kid. Whatever they were spraying stank of petroleum by-products and made a a heavy ground-level fog that would linger for an hour. Lots of dead beneficial insects to kill a few mosquitoes.
@tippitiwichet *snort* People speculate about restoring extinct species from the Passenger Pigeon to the Triceratops. Nobody imagines we'll soon be struggling to restore crickets, wolf, spiders, daddy-longlegs, honeybees, field ants, or any of a million other arthropoda....and our fucking LIVES actually depend on those.
@TwiHusband It's been so heartbreaking to see people blow off the warnings, so many people listening to sales pitches rather than science. People don't want to listen to long term consequences until it is too late.