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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.
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]
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.
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It’s illegal to sell or buy, but casu marzu, a maggot-infested sheep milk cheese is a revered delicacy on the Italian island of Sardinia. Locals hope their unusual dairy product can shed its ...
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 ...
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.