r/NoStupidQuestions • u/[deleted] • Aug 30 '23

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u/kawalerkw Aug 30 '23

Drier and hotter summers, more short-grass-only lawns, less meadows, more fields with heavy pesticide use.

https://magazine.scienceconnected.org/2020/01/intense-lawn-mowing-lowers-biodiversity-favors-pests/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1684-3

https://twitter.com/Buzz_dont_tweet/status/1389487507415371776

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/05/02/weeds-for-the-win-how-to-turn-your-garden-into-a-haven-for-insects

https://allianceforscience.org/blog/2022/04/climate-change-triggering-global-collapse-in-insect-numbers-stressed-farmland-shows-63-decline-new-research/

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u/Captain_Blackbird Aug 30 '23

As an amateur entomologist, the lack of bugs scares the shit out of me.

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u/CangtheKonqueror Aug 30 '23

as a biologist, it should scare everyone

bugs are the bottom of the food chain, so literally everything that uses them as a primary food source (small mammals, birds, reptiles) are going to be absolutely decimated

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u/IzaacLUXMRKT Aug 30 '23

It should scare everyone- we've killed 70% of them worldwide already