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.