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Insects may do fine, but individual species are another story. For example through most of Los Angeles, if you see an ant it is probably an Argentine ant (Line
by btilly 5y ago
Insects may do fine, but individual species are another story.
For example through most of Los Angeles, if you see an ant it is probably an Argentine ant (Linepithema humile). Over my son's life, the variety of native ants to be found near me has visibly declined.
- dexterdog 5y agoThat's probably not so much climate change as it is invading foreign species.
- btilly 5y agoAnd the reduction in flying insects documented in https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... is unlikely to be climate change either. Nor is https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/colony-collapse-disorder https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/colony-collapse-di.... Not everything is about climate change.
- markdown 5y agoWhat isn't about climate change soon will be.