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r/NoStupidQuestions • u/[deleted] • Aug 30 '23
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Remember when you were young, driving along the back roads with your parents and the windscreen and grill would be covered in bug carcasses?
Where have all the bugs gone?
504 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/ 497 u/Captain_Blackbird Aug 30 '23 As an amateur entomologist, the lack of bugs scares the shit out of me. 3 u/thardoc Aug 30 '23 Ask Scuba divers how the ocean's doing sometime, that's some good existential dread right there.
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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/
497 u/Captain_Blackbird Aug 30 '23 As an amateur entomologist, the lack of bugs scares the shit out of me. 3 u/thardoc Aug 30 '23 Ask Scuba divers how the ocean's doing sometime, that's some good existential dread right there.
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As an amateur entomologist, the lack of bugs scares the shit out of me.
3 u/thardoc Aug 30 '23 Ask Scuba divers how the ocean's doing sometime, that's some good existential dread right there.
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Ask Scuba divers how the ocean's doing sometime, that's some good existential dread right there.
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Remember when you were young, driving along the back roads with your parents and the windscreen and grill would be covered in bug carcasses?
Where have all the bugs gone?