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If you're old enough to remember, it's a little unsettling and strange. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

A global apocalypse has already happened (and is continuing, within what wreckage remains) in the insect and amphibian populations. Almost no one outside a small community of scientists that are specifically in that field has even noticed, let alone has a theory for why, or a guess as to whether it is an urgent problem.

But yes it seems like an urgent problem.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People have noticed...the majority just don't give a flying fuck

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Most people i know are happy about less insects in the summer.

The older i get, the more i learn about insects and the more i like them. Also, knowing more about their importance, makes me want to have many more insects around me, instead of less.

[–] brbposting 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Favorite insect fact?

[–] prettybunnys 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most insects are illiterate, and very few speak Portuguese.

[–] brbposting 7 points 4 months ago

lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

THEY TASTE LIKE SHIT YO

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nobody has a theory why insect populations are catastrophically falling? I highly doubt that.

I mean, wouldn’t the prolific use of pesticide be a pretty damn obvious cause? Wherever humans go, we spray for bugs.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah; I should have said no one has a compelling proven explanation. There are a lot of theories obviously. This article goes into a little bit of detail about it, although in my opinion is proffering its "death by a thousand cuts" theory without that being the consensus of the scientists i.e. "yes this is exactly the combination of factors responsible and they are all significant, we are confident." It's more just that things are collapsing too completely and quickly to even be able to coherently study for root cause(s).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Probably closer to “death by a thousand chainsaws” but yeah. People try to kill insects, and they succeed. Add that on top of all the other stuff humans do that kills species unintentionally (deforestation, monocropping, climate change, etc.) and there’s no wonder the population is collapsing suddenly and rapidly.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

I mean we used to have giant frog spawns every spring where we would have to be careful walking or we would step on several frogs at a time.

We haven't had one in 5 years.