Yes, I worry a lot about this.

#insects #BiodiversityDecline #InsectDecline #arthropods #environment

Even untouched ecosystems are losing insects at alarming rates, new study finds https://phys.org/news/2025-09-untouched-ecosystems-insects-alarming.html

🤩🎉🥳🥂👏 Successful PhD defence by Veronika-Hierlmeier-Hackl @uniinnsbruck on “protectAlps - #Alps, #PersistentPollutants, and #insects”

Congrats to you, Dr. Veronika, & thanks to Julia Seeber, Georg Leitinger, and examiners Gerhard Lammel!

#biodiversity #InsectDecline
#Womeninscience #WomeninSTEM #ecotoxicology

#InsectDecline #climate

He records the yearly data, the shifts in dominant species. But today, there is so much less to see. Once, when he and Hallwachs would type up their notes in the night, they would pitch a tent in the living room to protect their computers from thousands of #moths that flocked to the blue glow. Now, they work with the house open to the forest air. “I find myself saying, ‘Winnie! A moth has arrived at the light on my laptop,"Janzen says. “One moth.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe

Today I learned that "imaginal disc" [1] is called "imaginal" because that's the adjective form of "imago" [2], the adult insect form.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginal_disc
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imago

#entomology #Drosophila #InsectDecline

Saving the insects, one TV at a time

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/01/14/know-your-insects-save-them-too-the-north-american-giant-stag-beetle/

#insects #bugs #bugslife #ARealBugsLife #beetles #naturephotography #entomology #naturelovers #insectdecline #habitat #ecosystems #forests #insectnews #disney #natgeo #DisneyPlus #ARealBugsLife #awkwafina #pollinators #natureconservation #nature #conservation #pollinatorgarden #raingarden #science #research

Saving the insects, one TV at a time

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/01/14/know-your-insects-save-them-too-the-north-american-giant-stag-beetle/

#insects #bugs #bugslife #ARealBugsLife #beetles #naturephotography #entomology #naturelovers #insectdecline #habitat #ecosystems #forests #insectnews #disney #natgeo #DisneyPlus #ARealBugsLife #awkwafina #pollinators #natureconservation #nature #conservation #pollinatorgarden #raingarden #science #research

Ripping back the cover on the real lives of insects

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/01/14/know-your-insects-save-them-too-the-north-american-giant-stag-beetle/

#insects #bugs #insectdecline #habitat #ecosystems #forests #insectpopulation #speciesdecline #insectnews #disney #natgeo #DisneyPlus #ARealBugsLife #awkwafina #pollinators #natureconservation #nature #conservation #pollinatorgarden #raingarden