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Yup! I always thought it was me staying inside more as I got older, but I rarely see butterflies and bumble bees anymore. This terrifies me more than climate a
by everydayentropy 4y ago
Yup! I always thought it was me staying inside more as I got older, but I rarely see butterflies and bumble bees anymore.
This terrifies me more than climate alarmism.
- smackeyacky 4y agoYou don't think it might be related?
- quacked 4y agoThey're related in that both are downstream of industrialization, but changing climates aren't lessening insect biodiversity as much as overuse of various chemicals are.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoWarmer climate should be better for insect populations. This is mostly about pesticide overuse.
- hermitcrab 4y agoAnd habitat loss? Crop monocultures are not great for most insects (or animals or birds).
- adammarples 4y agoInsects can be very sensitive to drought
- m463 4y agowhat got me is that over the past 10 or more years, I've continually seen dead bees on the ground. and I think... what a small creature to *notice* on the ground. How many dead bees escape my notice? there must be a LOT.
- lasc4r 4y agoDo you think insecticides are altering where the bees die? Otherwise it sounds like you're describing a large population of former bees.
- eutectic 4y agoBees live less than a year, so the number of dead bees can surely only be used as an indicator of changes on around that time-scale or shorter. Eventually fewer bees means fewer dead bees.