From flickering fireflies to lowly dung beetles, insects are vanishing

[turbinetree]

By Reuters
Published December 06, 2022

By Gloria Dickie and Simon Scarr

(Reuters) - As a boy in the 1960s, David Wagner would run around his family’s Missouri farm with a glass jar clutched in his hand, scooping flickering fireflies out of the sky.

“We could fill it up and put it by our bedside at night,” says Wagner, now an entomologist.

That’s all gone, the family farm now paved over with new homes and manicured lawns. And Wagner’s beloved fireflies – like so many insects worldwide – have largely vanished in what scientists are calling the global Insect Apocalypse.

https://www.rawstory.com/from-flickering-fireflies-to-lowly-dung-beetles-insects-are-vanishing/

[dweller]

1. We are in deep trouble

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[turbinetree]

2. Yepper spot on................

we are in trouble big big trouble.....

[Magoo48]

5. Yup, that ain't hyperbole neither.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I have noticed this, and except for mosquito relief,.have been...

upset, but see too few answers.

[Magoo48]

4. So are birds and other animals they support.

This flashing warning of the ongoing and ever escalating existential threat to humanity will get little play here.

Yet, every time the Orange gasbag breaks wind; it’s “BREAKING” on DU.

Tell me, in the great scheme of things, which is more important?

[Duppers]

6. I've thought the same, yet have you...

Ever heard of a "conservative" supporting conservation/ environmental causes?

They don't care; most just have the "gawd will protect and take care of us" thinking. "Just pray."

I think human over-population greatly
increases environmental stress yet was once thoroughly dismissed by a DUer for proposing such an idea.

I totally agree with you in that extinction of species is an ever escalating existential threat. We humans animals aren't immune to the same environmental degradation as other critters.