Is this a bad thing?
I don’t like flying insects but I’m willing to live with with them if they’re important like bees.
So much fun living on a planet where everything is dying. Definitely not unnerving at all.
We are heading for an extinction event but I think that insects are better placed to survive it than humans. Insects will continue to exist but in vastly decreased numbers. Humans however and other large mammals face almost certain catastrophe. It is difficult to predict the behaviour of large chaotic systems with any accuracy but I think that human civilisation will collapse in about twenty years, not long after the Arctic begins to completely melt. The quicker humans become extinct the less chance other species become extinct. After humans become extinct the Earth will be left with a massively altered climate but many species will proliferate as Earth returns to equilibrium, among them many insects.
Sorry about that, all the little fuckers have moved into my flat.
If anyone wants moths back, they can come and get them.
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I feel like far more than climate change this is the thing we should be really worried about
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Man the pandemic was a real missed opportunity by mother nature. Coulda cleaned a good 2/3 of humanity there. Hey ho, we all burn together.
What terrifies me the most is all these houses with lighting all over them and not a moth in sight…
Growing up in the 90s, when our garden halogen light popped on there’d be loads of moths bouncing off the thing non stop. These days, people are covering their houses in up and down lighters, lining their gutters with lights (it looks like a fucking pub mate) and not a flying critter to be seen.
Add it to the list of reasons I’m not having kids. Nature is fucked.
the way to fix this is acres and acres of mono-culture crops and SuStAiNaBlE tree farms. all sprayed down with pesticide after mincing all the critters when tilling the fields.
Only viable way to fix this is to rapidly move a lot of farming crops to smart vertical hydroponics and return the land to nature.
Nothing at all to do with the Tories and their fascination with reinstating use of neonicotinoid (bee killing) pesticides, I’m sure.
No doubt that a massive bung from the massive pesticide corporation had fuck all to do with the decision.
They’re all here! Come get them. I’m not even joking. I keep finding flies, not so much in the garden at the moment what with the winter. Why don’t my army of spiders not catch vinegar flies?
I was just thinking the other day that I can’t remember the last time I saw an earwig or a woodlouse just knocking about. I don’t even remember there being a flying ant day for at least a year or two now, at least round my way.
When I was a kid these things were just a standard part of summertime. I’m 37. Its all going so *fast*.
Earths mass extinction is happening right now at this very minute
It might be because they’re all just crawling around more instead of flying
I have been a professional yacht skipper since 1984. I am now mostly sailing my own boat for pleasure, rather than others for pay, but I still logged 7000 miles this year, which is about 1000 hours of sailing, mostly in the open ocean. The contrast in the marine life I see – or rather don’t see – now compared with the 80’s is stark. Roughly 75% of the marine life has gone, especially the larger more visible animals. It’s apocalyptic. Much of the ocean is now barren desert. I almost never see large schools of tuna now, though once they were common. The industrial scale of fishing is almost incomprehensible. I see fishing boats now in parts of the ocean which were until recently just too far away from anywhere to be economic. It’s a disaster. Spanish and Chinese fishing boats in the remote South Pacific is a disaster.
My god, it would be genuinely surprising to me if it turned out that it hadn’t been over for a long time. Seems like it’s been over for a while, it’s just taking its time actually ending.
Has this been backed up by any other studies? Has the study taken into account the changing aerodynamics of the cars?
Today I saw a bee flying past me. How is that even possible in such a cold weather?
Could it be explained by lowered speed limits and the extensive of speed cameras?
It was very eerie this summer walking through a forest path to very little insects a few glimpses of bees and dragonflies a decade ago you would practically walking into hives of bees and all kinds of wildlife
Such a shame
As well as the dire ecological implications and consequences do we have any real idea as to causation? The obvious suspect is pesticides but it’s odd there’s such a cliff edge effect. Was a new variant introduced then or is this a cumulative tipping point effect?
Seems mosquitos in my area are yet to get the memo.
Sorry lads this might be my fault, I left half a banana out when I went on holiday for a week in august, I’d say most of them were probably here when they were counting them
The amount of dead bees you walk past during summer months on the pavement is alarming
As long as it was a 64% reduction in wasps I am happy
I saw this coming 15 years ago. Aphids & ladybirds were hatching several months apart from each other back then; & if one species’ prey/predator synchronicity was fubar, good chance others’ were too. Take anything for granted & lose it.
We are at the beginning of the sort of great extinction you see in the fossil record.
If aliens found out we were more concerned with making money than doing anything about it – and people even attacked protestors – they probably wouldn’t believe it.
We are witnessing the beginning of collapse as the holocene comes to an end. Economic and environmental collapse is already in effect and soon social collapse will follow. The super wealthy will live in isolated communities heavily guarded while the rest will kill each other for the scraps of remaining resources.
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Is this a bad thing?
I don’t like flying insects but I’m willing to live with with them if they’re important like bees.
So much fun living on a planet where everything is dying. Definitely not unnerving at all.
We are heading for an extinction event but I think that insects are better placed to survive it than humans. Insects will continue to exist but in vastly decreased numbers. Humans however and other large mammals face almost certain catastrophe. It is difficult to predict the behaviour of large chaotic systems with any accuracy but I think that human civilisation will collapse in about twenty years, not long after the Arctic begins to completely melt. The quicker humans become extinct the less chance other species become extinct. After humans become extinct the Earth will be left with a massively altered climate but many species will proliferate as Earth returns to equilibrium, among them many insects.
Sorry about that, all the little fuckers have moved into my flat.
If anyone wants moths back, they can come and get them.
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I feel like far more than climate change this is the thing we should be really worried about
[removed]
Man the pandemic was a real missed opportunity by mother nature. Coulda cleaned a good 2/3 of humanity there. Hey ho, we all burn together.
What terrifies me the most is all these houses with lighting all over them and not a moth in sight…
Growing up in the 90s, when our garden halogen light popped on there’d be loads of moths bouncing off the thing non stop. These days, people are covering their houses in up and down lighters, lining their gutters with lights (it looks like a fucking pub mate) and not a flying critter to be seen.
Add it to the list of reasons I’m not having kids. Nature is fucked.
the way to fix this is acres and acres of mono-culture crops and SuStAiNaBlE tree farms. all sprayed down with pesticide after mincing all the critters when tilling the fields.
Only viable way to fix this is to rapidly move a lot of farming crops to smart vertical hydroponics and return the land to nature.
Nothing at all to do with the Tories and their fascination with reinstating use of neonicotinoid (bee killing) pesticides, I’m sure.
No doubt that a massive bung from the massive pesticide corporation had fuck all to do with the decision.
They’re all here! Come get them. I’m not even joking. I keep finding flies, not so much in the garden at the moment what with the winter. Why don’t my army of spiders not catch vinegar flies?
https://www.buglife.org.uk/ is a charity I support if anyone who’s freaked out would like to donate to.
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I was just thinking the other day that I can’t remember the last time I saw an earwig or a woodlouse just knocking about. I don’t even remember there being a flying ant day for at least a year or two now, at least round my way.
When I was a kid these things were just a standard part of summertime. I’m 37. Its all going so *fast*.
Earths mass extinction is happening right now at this very minute
It might be because they’re all just crawling around more instead of flying
I have been a professional yacht skipper since 1984. I am now mostly sailing my own boat for pleasure, rather than others for pay, but I still logged 7000 miles this year, which is about 1000 hours of sailing, mostly in the open ocean. The contrast in the marine life I see – or rather don’t see – now compared with the 80’s is stark. Roughly 75% of the marine life has gone, especially the larger more visible animals. It’s apocalyptic. Much of the ocean is now barren desert. I almost never see large schools of tuna now, though once they were common. The industrial scale of fishing is almost incomprehensible. I see fishing boats now in parts of the ocean which were until recently just too far away from anywhere to be economic. It’s a disaster. Spanish and Chinese fishing boats in the remote South Pacific is a disaster.
My god, it would be genuinely surprising to me if it turned out that it hadn’t been over for a long time. Seems like it’s been over for a while, it’s just taking its time actually ending.
Has this been backed up by any other studies? Has the study taken into account the changing aerodynamics of the cars?
Today I saw a bee flying past me. How is that even possible in such a cold weather?
Could it be explained by lowered speed limits and the extensive of speed cameras?
It was very eerie this summer walking through a forest path to very little insects a few glimpses of bees and dragonflies a decade ago you would practically walking into hives of bees and all kinds of wildlife
Such a shame
As well as the dire ecological implications and consequences do we have any real idea as to causation? The obvious suspect is pesticides but it’s odd there’s such a cliff edge effect. Was a new variant introduced then or is this a cumulative tipping point effect?
Seems mosquitos in my area are yet to get the memo.
Sorry lads this might be my fault, I left half a banana out when I went on holiday for a week in august, I’d say most of them were probably here when they were counting them
The amount of dead bees you walk past during summer months on the pavement is alarming
As long as it was a 64% reduction in wasps I am happy
I saw this coming 15 years ago. Aphids & ladybirds were hatching several months apart from each other back then; & if one species’ prey/predator synchronicity was fubar, good chance others’ were too. Take anything for granted & lose it.
We are at the beginning of the sort of great extinction you see in the fossil record.
If aliens found out we were more concerned with making money than doing anything about it – and people even attacked protestors – they probably wouldn’t believe it.
We are witnessing the beginning of collapse as the holocene comes to an end. Economic and environmental collapse is already in effect and soon social collapse will follow. The super wealthy will live in isolated communities heavily guarded while the rest will kill each other for the scraps of remaining resources.