On the biological "tree of life" — which classifies organisms to describe their evolutionary and genetic relationship to one another — insects fall under the branch, or phylum, called arthropods, one of the 40 branches of the animal kingdom.
Insects pollinate more than 75 per cent of global crops, a service valued at up to $US577 billion per year, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services says. With fewer insects, "we'd have less food," said ecologist Dave Goulson at the University of Sussex. "We'd see yields dropping of all of these crops.""If insects continue to decline," Goulson said, "expect some pretty dire consequences for ecosystems generally — and for people.
This should be terrifying but folks seem happy to continue on as if our ecosystem is not collapsing. Ignorance is the great soother and enables ongoing indifference, but boy will the kids be pissed when they find out that we knew and did nothing.
If insects are diminishing, why are we been told by the WEF to eat them to save the planet?
Insect populations are in decline. And when they go, we go.
Christ
The mosquitoes aren’t disappearing!!
Yes they are vanishing, and yet the WEF wants us to eat them too. We are destroying the eco systems.
They're not.
I used to trust ABC now I can't tell when they speak the truth or lie?
Solve 'climate change' by defuning the ABC, we pay $1.1Billion for activists to perpetuate the socialist trojan horse .. drain the swamp
No they're not. We need a proper fact check on this.
Interesting snapshot.
Yippee!!!.. can eat outside in summer time now!..
That's because greens voters eat them
No more Christmas beetles in my part of Victoria now 🪲💔
Pesticides doing what they do best. Killing insects