WORLD WIDE DECLINE OF INSECTS.:SCARY!!!

In an October 15, 2018  frightening article: Ben Guarino of the Washington Post published a piece entitled: ‘Hyperalarming” study shows massive insect loss.  Guarino’s piece reviews recent studies around the world which show the recent decline in the bug populations.  In the past 35 years an international team of scientists have concluded that the abundance’s of a group of land Arthropoda we generally refer to as “bugs” have declined by 45%. A study in a German nature preserve reported that in the past few decades there was a 75% decrease in flying insects.  As a natural consequence these studies also report on the decline in frogs, reptiles and birds which feed on insects have declined in step with the bug losses.

You may think “Oh well, good riddance.  Who wants them around anyway?”

Well a recent study of the National Acdemy of Sciences revealed that aside from plants which make up 80%of the biomass on earth (bacteria are next —13%—and fungus —2% less again) animals make up only a small part of the total biomass —only 2 gigatons our of the 550 gigatons total.
But it is insects (bugs) which make up half of that —a full 1 gigaton.  Fish in the sea and lakes make up nearly another gigaton—about 0.7 gigatons.  The remaineder on0.3 gigatons comprises all the other critters on the Earth.  (PS the human species—is only 0.06 gigatons—and that is way more than it should be in a natural systeM)

So if we are reporting these massive losses of insects—that is a really really scary and thereatening problem which portents a massive fall off of those other critters —which in the interdependent system which is our environment —depened on.  This is a system after all—we are all in this Earth together with birds, bugs and blue whales.

The authors of these hyperscary data all seem to ATTRIBUTE THE BUG LOSS TO CLIMATE CHANGE—with the group think going on these days.

But I suggest that the fact that the big chemical companiesnies in this world of our see fit to produce and sell 6 billion pounds of organophosphate neonicitionods and glyphosate insecticides and herbicides annually.  That is roughly almost one pound for each man, woman and child on the Earth.

It seems to this observer that though climate change may have its effects—it is the poisonous chemicals we are immersed in. These chiemcals soak into our soils, percolate into our groundwater, into our stream, rivers and into the ocean.  We are killing the insects.  That is a sure sign we are drastically poisoning our Earth.  If it is unfit for insects.......