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Insect population declining around world

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Something is going on in the world of bugs.

Actually, something is going wrong in the world of bugs, which means that something is going wrong in the world.

Studies are beginning to show the bug population is dropping so low that scientists are now calling it a “bugpocalypse” or “insect armageddon.” The problem is worldwide, and studies are pouring in.

It started with a Denmark study of tracking the splats on a windshield. The studies then increased In size and scope. A study with Aarhus University, the University of Copenhagen, North Carolina State University and the Natural History Museum of Denmark in a German nature reserve show decreases in flying insect populations by 75 percent over 27 years.

The Krefeld Society in Germany announced that in one reserve, insects had decreased almost 80 percent over 24 years. A study in the El Yunque rainforest in Puerto Rico found a shocking difference in 36 years. Whereas once, 473 milligrams of bugs were caught, now the catch rate is only 8 milligrams.

Fish, birds, frogs, lizards and other animals that rely on insects for food has declined, too. One study found that some of these species have declined on average by 45 percent. Eighty percent of the partridges have disappeared from French farmlands. Over the past 30 years, farmland birds in Europe have decreased by 50 percent. Nightingales dropped 50 percent, while turtledoves dropped 80 percent. The Puerto Rican tody, a bird, has declined by 90 percent. These birds eat mostly insects as their food source. In contrast, the ruddy quail dove had no population change. Iit eats fruits and seeds.

So what is happening to our bugs? No one knows. Most scientists believe a number of factors come into play. Some are beyond our control.  But there are some things the average gardener can do to help.

The first thing is to realize you do not have to kill a bug just because it is eating your plants. The second thing is to stop using chemicals in your garden. Try to provide a haven for frogs, lizards, caterpillars and insects. The third is to plant native plants. A recent study on Carolina chickadees showed that bird populations dwindled unless landscapes had at least 70 percent native plant biomass. The scientists felt Carolina chickadees made a good representation for most insect-eating birds.

If you think about it, increasing native plants makes sense. Insects need plants to eat; they choose native plants. For them to sustain their populations and to have enough insects to sustain birds, fish, frogs, lizards and other populations, native plants are imperative. Of course, planting native plants only helps if you do not use chemicals that hurt the insects you are trying to attract, and do not kill insects that may need your plants to survive.

According to an article published at smithsonianmag.com, homeowner Debbie Hollander is convinced. Her yard was a part of the Carolina chickadee study. A bird lover, Hollander was excited to see a nest in her yard. Excitement turned to dismay when only one chick of four survived to fledge.The next year, she had no nests in her yard.

“I always knew that native plants were important, but actually seeing these scientists walking around and counting caterpillars on the leaves really brought it home to me. I would never, ever plant anything now that’s nonnative.”

To the world of bugs  — and for the world in general — your actions could mean a world of difference.

athensreview.com



92 Comments on "Insect population declining around world"

  1. Uncle Bill on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 7:55 am 

    Rex Tillerson claimed in a public forum while CEO of Exxon Mobile that we just need to adapt…. shouldn’t be all that complicated with our large brains….sorry insects…you are toast…maybe Monsanto can genetically engineer an insect to survive so it can continue to sell it’s Round up….
    My Fuhrer….I have a PLAN…I CAN WALK…

  2. I AM THE MOB on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 7:57 am 

    The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that once believed they were eternal..

    -Camille Paglia

  3. GetAVasectomyAndLetTheHumanSpecieDie on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 7:58 am 

    Dr. John Sanford Lecture at NIH: Genetic E
    entropy – Can Genome Degradation be Stopped?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mfn2upw-O8

    Genetic entropy book
    https://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Entropy-John-C-Sanford/dp/0981631606

    We are seeing the end of life on earth cause be the degradation DNA withing every living thing.

    It is not global warming, it is loss of information withing DNA

  4. twocats on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 9:27 am 

    Hey – ReadAnArticleAndActuallyThinkForASecond –

    article literally doesn’t mention the words global warming or climate change. genes may be degrading in YOUR brain – seems likely – but the rest of the creatures on earth were doing just fine.

  5. Sissyfuss on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 9:52 am 

    Gotta go, Walmart is having a New Years sale on bug zappers, one of the greatest inventions of the 29th century. Made the afternoon barbeque totally enjoyable.

  6. Sissyfuss on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 9:54 am 

    20 Century. Will be no inventions in the 29th Century.

  7. GetAVasectomyAndDon'tTalkWithLoserLikeTwoCat on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 9:55 am 

    twocats is the typical idiot that you now find everywhere with low IQ, bad and damage DNA

    To quote the article:

    So what is happening to our bugs? No one knows. Most scientists believe a number of factors come into play. Some are beyond our control. But there are some things the average gardener can do to help.

    What scientist don’t date to say because loser like twocat could not handle it is that DNA of every living thing is rapidly degenerating. Everything living will eventually go extinct because of DNA degeneration.

  8. JuanP on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 10:26 am 

    China’s population is declining, too!
    http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1134258.shtml

  9. Davy on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 11:05 am 

    Juan, what a stupid empty post. Lol IQ

  10. More Davy Projections on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 12:52 pm 

    Davy on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 11:05 am

    Juan, what a stupid empty post. Lol IQ

  11. Chrome Mags on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 3:21 pm 

    I don’t buy degrading DNA a the cause of insect losses, because it’s happening so fast. Insects are the base of the food chain for so many terrestrial animals. As insects vanish many other animals will too. But the same can be said for the oceans as the base of the food chain, phytoplankton declined dramatically in recent years due to warmer seas.

    Face it, the footprint of people on this planet is disastrous. The 6th extinction event our species has initiated is gaining speed extremely fast.

  12. dissident on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 4:47 pm 

    Degraded DNA would be measureable. No such evidence exists.

    The cult of humans can not mess up has billions of true believers. This basically guarantees that the cult will go the way of the insects and the rest of life on this planet.

    Of course some life will survive and eventually take over. But don’t bank it including the oversized and underused cranium ape species.

  13. GetAVasectomyLoserLifeIsOnlyEntropy on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 4:58 pm 

    There is plenty of prof about genetic google it.
    Study on human H1N1 influenza virus demonstrates genetic entropy

    http://biblicalgeology.net/blog/study-on-human-h1n1-influenza-virus-demonstrates-genetic-entropy

    This is the real scientifically paper:
    https://tbiomed.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/1742-4682-9-42

    One major factor that is killing life on this planet is genetic entropy, there if other factor also, but genetic entropy is the main ones

  14. makati1 on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 5:37 pm 

    Few realize that it is the little things that keep balance in this world. Pesticides and pollution are killing them off so we can be “comfortable” and have spotless apples. How comfortable is a casket? Will perfect fruit justify our extinction? Just asking.

  15. deadly on Tue, 1st Jan 2019 9:06 pm 

    Just too many doggone chickens being raised by those stupid humans. Chickens eat bugs, more chickens in yards means fewer bugs.

    Kill and eat chickens to save the bugs.

    Depends upon where you look and what it is.

    There was a dearth of crickets this year, previous years, I have seen crickets by the hundreds of thousands out in fields after the crop has been combined.

    The science says that termites are going to increase in numbers in the future.

    Our results show that all but one termite species are expected to significantly increase in their global distribution, irrespective of the climatic scenario and year. The range shifts by species (shift vectors) revealed a complex pattern of distributional changes across latitudes rather than simple poleward expansion. Mapping of potential invasion hotspots in 2050 under the RCP 4.5 scenario revealed that the most suitable areas are located in the tropics.

    Invasive termites in a changing climate: A global perspective

  16. DerHundistLos on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 4:33 am 

    Right on, TWOCATS!!!!!!!

  17. Creationist on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 4:40 am 

    DNA has been degrading for a few thousand years. It is probably a consequence of the fall of Adam and Eve.

  18. DerHundistLos on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 4:52 am 

    We know what’s happening to insects. It’s the same thing happening to a rapidly increasing list of species. A perfect storm of pollution, habitat loss, invasive species, AGW, and the present mass extinction emergency have combined to create conditions that are highly destructive to life. With the steep loss of invertebrates, multiple studies indicate the world is on course for an ecological Armageddon. Trees are dying at an unprecedented rate from extreme weather events, portending profound effects to Earth’s carbon cycle. Coral bleaching events are now happening four times more frequently than a few decades ago. Half of all coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef died over the past two years due to coral bleaching.
    “It’s going to be a horrible world. Young people now are going to curse the present generation for what we’ve done.

    The exponential growth of modern civilization ensures that one of the next doubling times will produce an absolute increase in overshoot that tips the world into unavoidable collapse. Enough damage may well have already been done; we’re just waiting for inertia to catch up to the impacts.

    The signs are everywhere.

    Nothing will be done until we reach the point of environmental apocalypse, but by then it will be too late of course.

  19. Sissyfuss on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 4:34 pm 

    ” There is plenty prof about genetic google it.” Forget the vasectomy, Getit. Get an education.

  20. makati1 on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 5:40 pm 

    GetA must be a dumbed down American, Sissyfuss. “genetic entropy” has been ongoing ever since life began on this ball of rock. There is genetic damage ongoing in every living thing, including humans.

    Sure, we have caused the damage rate to increase with our chemicals and radiation, but they would have occurred anyway. The ecosystem we know will be gone soon and us with it. Mother Nature is clearing the stage for her next big production. Humans exit stage left!

  21. Davy on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 6:04 pm 

    GetA must be a dumbed down American

    He is Canadian stupid but that is par for the course from your dumbass. Anyone that is bad per your warped mind is an American.

  22. makati1 on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 6:25 pm 

    Canadians are Americans the last time I looked at a map, and are just as dumb as the US serfs or they wouldn’t have their heads up the US ass so far.

  23. Sissyfuss on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 6:27 pm 

    Is it only me but does the asteroid Ultima Thule look like a mushroom dick?

  24. Davy on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 6:36 pm 

    Canadians are Americans the last time I looked at a map”

    That was a stutter if I ever saw one billy. Quit playing like you are clever. You do this constantly because you have no memory nor ability to distinguish people from different countries IOW you lack critical skills.

    and are just as dumb as the US serfs or they wouldn’t have their heads up the US ass so far.

  25. makati1 on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 7:18 pm 

    No stutter, Davy, fact. The maps show Canada as part of the American continent, therefore, they ARE Americans.

    “Americans…of or relating to North or South America; of the Western Hemisphere”
    https://www.dictionary.com/browse/american

    Grade school putdowns do NOT make you look intelligent or mature. But you are too thick to ever learn.

    Not to mention that your English grammar is lacking. Correct punctuation DOES make a difference.

  26. Davy on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 7:25 pm 

    you stuttered dummy and I caught you and now you are trying to wiggle out. The point is, stupid, you claim everyone that your warped mind finds disagreeable an American as in USA.

    “Grade school putdowns do NOT make you look intelligent or mature”

    please shut up hypocrite you put people down constantly and then whine when you get put in your place.

  27. Davy on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 8:46 pm 

    Sorry for losing my shit again everyone, especially sorry to you Sir William. Any chance of letting me and the wife join you on your farm before the nukes fly? Old friend?

  28. makati1 on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 10:45 pm 

    Davy has obviously not looked into any psychological help. Just getting worse by the day.

    https://www.freeclinics.com/sta/missouri

    He’s really slip slidin’… LMAO

  29. Davy on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 1:53 am 

    “Davy has obviously not looked into any psychological help. Just getting worse by the day.”

    Typical makati1 response when he has been put in his place. Too bad for you that you are too old for psychological help. You now have to worry about dementia and alzheimer’s.

  30. JuanP identity theft on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 1:54 am 

    Davy on Wed, 2nd Jan 2019 8:46 pm

  31. makati1 on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 2:04 am 

    Davy, my mind is sharper than yours obviously. Alzheimers and mental problems do not run in my family. Never have. I have never abused my body or mind with alcohol, tobacco or drugs of any kind.

    A life of physical work, a career that required constant thinking in the real world of costs and management and not sitting on the internet, spewing bullshit 24/7/365 like you do. I have a life. You need to get one. LMAO!

  32. Davy on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 2:32 am 

    “Davy, my mind is sharper than yours obviously.”
    Notice how you don’t have any explanation. We only have your comments and they give away your poor mental and personality state. You obviously have behavioral issues like simmering hate and resentment.

    “Alzheimers and mental problems do not run in my family. Never have. I have never abused my body or mind with alcohol, tobacco or drugs of any kind.”
    Sure billy this is the internet and you are so stuck on yourself all we here is how perfect you are. When I hear such things we know the story goes deeper.

    “A life of physical work, a career that required constant thinking in the real world of costs and management and not sitting on the internet, spewing bullshit 24/7/365 like you do. I have a life. You need to get one. LMAO!”
    Billy, you spew shit 24/7/365 hypocrite. LMFAO. I have a farm and do physical labor. You lay on a dirty Filipino beach and drink beer and likely have a poor diet of an old single guy. In the old days you talked about drinking scotch and beer now you say you don’t. You don’t do shit but what people farm in regards to your fantasy farm. I have a life you don’t. Besides at almost 80 what work can you do? You are a scrawny little man who is now sedentary

  33. Cloggie on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 4:28 am 

    Notice how you don’t have any explanation.

    Just like you never respond to my WW2 explanations.

  34. Davy on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 4:56 am 

    neder, If I responded to your WW2 explanations everytime you post them (biweekly) it would be a full time job. I have responded to your revisions over these many years. Go spam them on a Eurotard history revision site. On topic here is energy related. Got it.

  35. Davy on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 4:59 am 

    Your Nazi Knights were not innocent and not victims nor were the allies. This happened decades ago. Get a life and try to live in the 21st century. Your sore pride is not our problem.

  36. I AM THE MOB on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 5:16 am 

    A quarter of all Holocaust victims were murdered during only three months

    https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/aaft-aqo010219.php

    New peer reviewed scientific study on how awful the Nazi’s were..

  37. I AM THE MOB on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 5:17 am 

    Sorry I haven’t been around lately folks..Been busy getting fucked up and living it up before the world comes to an end!

    How was your new years CLogg? I know damn well you didn’t get any pussy!

    LMFAO!

  38. Davy Off Topic Post on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:15 am 

    Davy on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 4:56 am

  39. Davy Off Topic Post on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:17 am 

    Davy on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 4:59 am

  40. JuanP noise on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:18 am 

    Davy Off Topic Post

  41. Davy Sock Puppetry on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:27 am 

    JuanP noise on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:18 am

  42. JuanP noise on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:38 am 

    Davy Sock Puppetry on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:27 am

  43. More Davy Sock Puppetry on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:40 am 

    JuanP noise on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:38 am

  44. JuanP noise on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:41 am 

    More Davy Sock Puppetry on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:40 am

  45. Cloggie on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:45 am 

    A quarter of all Holocaust victims were murdered during only three months

    https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/aaft-aqo010219.php

    New peer reviewed scientific study on how awful the Nazi’s were..

    Oh jeez, another Israeli Jew holohoaxing, and pushed by our forum kike, who openly admits he wants to rape and nuke-kill white people by the millions.

    Give me the name and proof of a single Jew who was gassed in a gaschamber. You can’t.

    Response from holo-professionals to the “study”:

    https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12193&sid=3cc566f702d68e785cc0606ba4b8b1ce

    The Holohoax, invented by a show-trial that for 75% consisted of Jews, who saw their chance to cement their rule over the white world, in order to be able to destroy the white world through fake white guilt.

    And now it is coming out, thanks to the internet:

    https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/an-embarrassing-discovery/

    The empire and the hoax will go down and under in history hand-in-hand. Anglo-Zionism is soooh 20th century.

    Come on Chinaman, show them who is boss:

    https://deepresource.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/fall-empires2.jpg

    Geopolitical consequences of GDP:

    By 1910 the US economy had superseded the British one, the official geopolitical #1 of that time. The US deep state managed to buy the good services of the half-American and world’s first neocon Winston Churchill and next used Britain (and Poland) as America’s useful idiot to get a war started, that only served American and Soviet interests (read: global Jewry) at the cost of Europe.

    Now the roles are reversed. China is about to challenge US dominance and no doubt will win this fight.

    Poor mobster, this is not his century, not any more, regardless of how much he loves to dream of a neo-bolshevik revolution on US soil, using his imported darkies against whitey.

    Unfortunately for mobster, there are still 640 million Europeans around, who would love to see America go up in flames of CW2, because that event would pave the way for Europe to retake its natural place in the international pecking order and this time not as a set of 5 competing European nations, but this time as a united EU + Russia, the coming new overlord of (T)rump-America.

    History teaches us that it is always best to enter a war last. We Europeans always wanted to see America and if that is to be with a gun between our legs, in one of our 10,000 wide-body planes, so be it.

  46. More Davy Sock Puppetry on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:45 am 

    JuanP noise on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:41 am

  47. JuanP clutter on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:48 am 

    More Davy Sock Puppetry on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:45 am

  48. Davy on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 7:01 am 

    I win the conversation again nedernazi.

    I can always tell when I win cause everyone but the slob thinks I’m a stupid dumbass.

  49. More Davy Sock Puppetry on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 7:03 am 

    JuanP clutter on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 6:48 am

  50. Not Davy on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 7:20 am 

    Davy on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 7:01 am

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