What's been lost...
Entomologists from Krefeld, Germany, collected flying insects for two weeks in August 1994 (left) and—at the same site, with an identical trap— in August 2016 (right). Similar data from 63 German protected areas overall gave a shocking result: a 76 percent drop in insect biomass between 1989 and 2016.
It has worsened significantly in the past 9 years.
Photographed at Entomological Society of Krefeld
@VeroniqueB99 We.Are.Fucked. This is stark evidence of our planet’s future. We, and many more species will be gone. The planet’ll be fine. Perhaps cockroaches will rule. We do not deserve this home.