But nice lawns and golf courses and unblemished flower gardens are so important. We can't possibly give up routine use of #pesticides.

Yet it's clear that even "benign" pesticides, like #pyrethroids, have adverse impacts. Even if they are harmless to people and pets, they have serious adverse consequences. So much of nature's food chain relies on insects - as pollinators, as food for birds and fish, as natural pest control (lady bugs in the garden as an example)

And the joy of seeing butterflies brings smiles to many peoples faces (certainly mine).

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/monarch-butterflies-mass-die-off-pesticides?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#insectageddon #ecosysytems #foodchain

3-Apr-2025
‘Some #insects are declining but what’s happening to the other 99%?’
Despite fears over ‘#insectageddon’, there is a lack of data about virtually all insect species globally, so a research rethink is needed

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079213 #science #ecology #conservation

This, on the other hand, is a glimmer of doom. The #insectageddon has ramifications - not just for insects, but for all species that depend on insects in some ways from fish to birds to mammals, to both crops and wild plants that depend on insects pollination. And the EPA does this because the US #Agricultural industry chooses not to move to less toxic practices for pest control? #IntegratedPestManagement at the more invasive end, #Organic and #RegenerativeAgriculture at the least invasive end are widely practiced. Why do we tolerate #IndustrialAgriculture while knowing about the damage it does?

Perhaps you could contact your Senators and Representative in Washington and ask them to do something? It's easy to find their contact info at https://www.congress.gov/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/08/us-epa-toxic-pesticides-paralyse-bees-insects?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#Insectageddon: Is there a better way to describe distinct political movements in four different Mideast nations, each with a social base in a minority or majority population of those countries, than by comparing them to flesh-eating parasites injected by a foreign insect? Well, yeah—lots of them.
#BiPartisanWeaponsComplexGivesAShitAboutPovertyHumanRightsSegregationClimateAndInequality
#LegacyMediaMisInformationDoesNotSeeFascism
#AntiSemitismChargesAboutGazaAreHolocaustDenial

https://fair.org/home/action-alert-friedmans-vermin-analogies-echo-ugly-pro-genocide-propaganda/

Now it's beginning to show...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/09/global-pollinator-losses-causing-500000-early-deaths-a-year-study

#sixthmassextinction #insectageddon

Flying insect numbers plunge 64% since 2004, @Buglife UK #SplatterTest survey finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/flying-insect-numbers-plunge-64-since-2004-uk-survey-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#InsectDecline #insectageddon #insects #ecology

Some excellent graphics in this Reuters piece exploring the state of #InsectDecline & the extent of our knowledge.

"[Insects are] the fabric tethering together every freshwater & terrestrial ecosystem across the planet.”

"The world has lost 5%-10% of all insect species in the last 150 years... 250,000 and 500,000 species"

#SciComm #Insects #Entomology #biodiversity #InsectApocalypse #insectageddon

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/