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Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis: Bloomsbury Sigma: Dave Goulson: Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse: Vintage: Oliver Milman: The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World: Atlantic Books: George Monbiot: Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet: Allen Lane: Ben Rawlance
Volucella zonaria, male. Volucella zonaria can reach a length of 25 millimetres (0.98 in), [5] with a wingspan of about 40 mm. [7] These very large and wide hoverflies have reddish-brown shining thorax with dark brown marks, and a reddish-brown scutellum.
Pollinator decline is the reduction in abundance of insect and other animal pollinators in many ecosystems worldwide that began being recorded at the end of the 20th century. Multiple lines of evidence exist for the reduction of wild pollinator populations at the regional level, especially within Europe and North America.
As insects account for the vast majority of the world's invertebrates, this figure by extension applies to them as well. [13] A 2019 survey of 24 entomologists working on six continents found that on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the worst, all the scientists rated the severity of the insect decline crisis as being between 8–10. [30]
The 1981 infestation turned into a political crisis and led to the beginning of the state's aerial spraying program in July of that year. [13] [14] Medflies were found in traps as late as 2007 in Solano County, California. [15] The first medflies in Florida turned up in 1929 and they have been a constant threat to the citrus crop there ever ...
Climate change is altering the geographic range and seasonality of some insects that can carry diseases, for example Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that is the vector for dengue transmission. Global climate change has increased the occurrence of some infectious diseases. Infectious diseases whose transmission is impacted by climate change include, for example, vector-borne diseases like dengue ...
On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, the host cold-opened the show to briefly discuss the Israel-Hamas war while calling for peace.. Similar to how Pete Davidson opened Saturday Night ...
The extinction event produced major changes in Paleogene insect communities. Many groups of ants were present in the Cretaceous, but in the Eocene ants became dominant and diverse, with larger colonies. Butterflies diversified as well, perhaps to take the place of leaf-eating insects wiped out by the extinction.