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The Silence of the Bugs

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Message 3 of 15 (834076)
05-30-2018 2:39 AM

Reply to: Message 1 by Tanypteryx
05-30-2018 2:34 AM

What Bugs Me

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A study published last fall documented a 76 percent decline in the total seasonal biomass of flying insects netted at 63 locations in Germany over the last three decades. Losses in midsummer, when these insects are most numerous, exceeded 80 percent.

Now I just read the article in full. Looks like pesticides are the likely culprit, and coupled with a drought of naturalist students, the world could be headed for disaster from this alarming decline.

Edited by Phat, : just read article

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Message 15 of 15 (892121)
02-26-2022 7:17 AM

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05-30-2018 3:14 AM

Re: What Bugs Me

This recent article which I read brought up memories of this thread, which I had to look up in the EvC Archive.
The Insect Crises

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain "
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“…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox

“A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.”
H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
(1894).

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