What's causing the decline in insects worldwide?

[midnight rambler]

Chemtrails? Montanto's Roundup? Fukasmina? EM radiation? ???

Rense has been covering this for a while.

Note the decline in CR of all places. CR is a paradise, why the decline in insects there??

https://apnews.com/eccd411638994db6b5388c052c00dd3b

[Horn]

Call me backwards, I just dont think its been near warm enough for a long enough time to promote their numbers.

Ground critters are same in number as far as I can tell. Airborne less.

The planet is cool on the whole now and they're reporting it as average temp.

[woodman]

Call me backwards, I just dont think its been near warm enough for a long enough time to promote their numbers.

Ground critters are same in number as far as I can tell. Airborne less.

The planet is cool on the whole now and they're reporting it as average temp.
Horn, you're in Costa Rica aren't you? I am in Michigan and the insects are no where near as plentiful as they used to be. Used to have bug guts all over my windshield. Now hardly any. It's not a streamline issue either because the grill and radiator show nil.

[monty]

Horn, you're in Costa Rica aren't you? I am in Michigan and the insects are no where near as plentiful as they used to be. Used to have bug guts all over my windshield. Now hardly any. It's not a streamline issue either because the grill and radiator show nil.

On the 25th of August I drove from Castle Rock, Colorado to Kanab, Utah (650 miles) and hardly a bug on the glass or the front of the car. Same on the return trip.

[Horn]

Its currently 58^f in Detroit

[woodman]

Its currently 58^f in Detroit
Yeah, go ahead and rub it in..... I do however, live in a rural setting on an old country highway. I am surrounded by temperate forest and have four seasons. Fall is my favorite. The salmon are running in the river. The cool nights and crisp days suit my mentality and the sullen days of late fall and early winter definitely fit my moody nature. There is a reason they call your area a tropical paradise though. I suppose if I spent some time down there on white beaches with pretty brown girls I wouldn't be such a moody prick. Oh and I had to quit drinking beer for a while until I lose some weight.

Back to the bugs though. I imagine that many stressers are to blame for the decline. Not just one.

[Horn]

I've tried to figure out what weather determines a mosquito outbreak here. If it rains too much they take a big hit as far as I can tell.

The U.S. had some extreme weather as far as i can tell this and recent years. But overall I say cool to rainy, i dont think airborne does as well in it.

The fluffy young girls are doing well here in costa rica this year though, so much so that I hardly notice the bugs...

[singular_me]

I made a cross country from NM to FL and my windshield stayed clean all the way...

[Spun Gold]

Here in tropical Mexico, there used to be a lot of butterflies. Now hardly none. Sad. The good part is there are not as many mosquitos, not as many cucarachas. But the ANTS are more than ever!

[monty]

More bad news for Monsatan

https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-09-30-monsantos-weedkiller-bombshell-it-murders-honey-bees-global-collapse-food-supply.html


Monsanto’s weedkiller BOMBSHELL: It murders honey bees, too, contributing to global collapse of the food supply

Sunday, September 30, 2018 by: Isabelle Z. (http://gold-silver.us/forum/safari-reader://www.naturalnews.com/author/isabelle)

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(Natural News (https://www.naturalnews.com/)) Monsanto likes to promote the idea that GMOs can solve world hunger. At first, many wanted to believe that they could indeed provide an answer to this devastating problem, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that they’re actually having the opposite effect. In fact, Monsanto’s popular weed killer glyphosate, which is regularly used on genetically modified crops, is putting honeybees in danger, and a newly released study provides some of the strongest evidence yet (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds) that the biotech firm is contributing to the collapse of our global food supply rather than saving it.

Past studies have already demonstrated how pesticides like neonicotinoids harm bees. Monsanto’s glyphosate, which only targets enzymes in bacteria and plants, must be a safer choice for bees, right? Not so fast.

In a new paper, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (https://www.utexas.edu/) outline how glyphosate harms the microbiota needed by honeybees for growing and resisting pathogens. Not only is glyphosate playing a big role in the decline of bees across the planet, but it’s also destroying their habitats.

In the study, the researchers painted colored dots on the backs of hundreds of adult worker bees and exposed them to glyphosate levels widely seen in crop fields, roadsides, and yards. After recapturing the bees three days later, they found that the herbicide had dramatically reduced their healthy gut microbiota.
Half of the eight dominant healthy bacteria species found in bees were diminished, with the critical microbe involved in digestion and pathogen defense, Snodgrassella alvi, being hit the hardest.

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In addition to having far lower levels of beneficial bacteria in their guts, these bees also died more often when subsequently exposed to a common type of bacteria and other infectious pathogens. For example, while half of healthy bees managed to survive the introduction of the Serratia marcescens bacteria, only one tenth of those who had been exposed to glyphosate were able to survive the bacteria.

Although this study was focused on honeybees, the researchers say that bumblebees have very similar microbiomes, so it’s safe to assume that they would be affected by glyphosate in much the same way.

Better guidelines needed

Researcher Erick Motta said that better guidelines for glyphosate use are needed, particularly where bee exposure is concerned. The current guidelines were crafted on the assumption that the chemical doesn’t harm bees, and this study shows that simply is not the case (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roundup-weed-killer-may-play-role-in-widespread-bee-deaths-study-finds/).

This summer, a Chinese study found that the larvae of honeybees grew more slowly when they were exposed to glycosylate, and they died more often. All of this came after a 2015 study that found that adult bees who were exposed to glyphosate at levels found in fields experienced cognitive impairments that prevented them from returning to their hives.

University of Sussex (https://www.sussex.ac.uk/) Professor Dave Goulson, a biologist and insect expert, said: “It now seems that we have to add glyphosate to the list of problems that bees face. This study is also further evidence that the landscape-scale application of large quantities of pesticides has negative consequences that are often hard to predict.”

He pointed out the gut bacteria plays an essential role maintaining good health in bees just like it does in humans. Therefore, finding these bacteria are sensitive to glyphosate is highly concerning. After all, pollination by bees is crucial for roughly 75 percent of the planet’s food crops. Experts say that without bees, life as we know it would no longer exist. Diets would be significantly poorer without nutritious food like fruits and vegetables, as well as other crops like chocolate and coffee.

In addition, bees are essential pieces of many other ecological processes – for example, breaking down leaves and dead animals, recycling their nutrients and making them available again.

Glyphosate’s popularity soars as bees and humans die

It’s a huge problem, with glyphosate being the most-used pesticide on the planet. More than 700,000 tons (https://www.dw.com/en/study-shows-glyphosate-may-be-killing-honeybees/a-45618950) of it are produced each year, and farmers have been spraying it on their crops for more than 40 years.
Given the widespread use of this weed killer, the problem is expected to get worse. Bee populations (http://www.bees.news/) have already been hit hard, dropping dramatically in many areas of the world. Beekeepers in America have noted that millions of bees have mysteriously disappeared, while Chinese farmers have now taken to hand-pollinating fruit trees because there aren’t enough bees left to get the job done.

The new bee study (http://science.naturalnews.com/honey%5Fbee.html) is just the latest in a string of bad news for Monsanto, who is facing hundreds of federal and court cases over the herbicide’s link to cancer. Last month, a court ordered the firm to pay a terminally ill man $289 million in damages after ruling the chemical had caused his cancer. Glyphosate is killing people directly and indirectly, and not much is being done to try to control it.

Goulson added: “People should be jumping up and down and concerned over this, because these insects do so much. Really, ecosystems will collapse, and we cannot survive without insects. People may not like insects – often they don’t – but they ought to appreciate that insects do an awful lot for us.”

Sources for this article include:
TheGuardian.com (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds)
CBSNews.com (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roundup-weed-killer-may-play-role-in-widespread-bee-deaths-study-finds/)
DW.com (https://www.dw.com/en/study-shows-glyphosate-may-be-killing-honeybees/a-45618950)

[midnight rambler]

https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Hyperalarming-study-shows-massive-insect-loss-13308742.php

[Horn]

Lister and Garcia attribute this crash to climate. In the same 40-year period as the arthropod crash, the average high temperature in the rain forest increased by 4 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperatures in the tropics stick to a narrow band. The invertebrates that live there, likewise, are adapted to these temperatures and fare poorly outside them; bugs cannot regulate their internal heat.

Again, compromised by global warming, what a shame. Alls higher tempratures do in the tropics (and there isn't any) is make it rain sooner in the day.

Increased water vapor is present everywhere on this globe. So it would be too cool at night and need someone to burn an adjacent forest for bugs to survive.