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Oliver Milman’s book The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World, is about the precipitous decline of insects. Some people would joke that they wouldn't mind there being fewer insects - like Jersey mosquitoes - around. But that is very short-sighted and reading this book you see what the disappearance of insects means for human life and the other creatures around us.
These tiny invertebrates and their “tiny empires” when measured as a whole biomass, the size is more than enormous. Their decline affects the food we buy and medicines we take and much of the natural beauty around us both flora and fauna.
The threats to insects are familiar - pesticides, habitat destruction, electric lighting and climate change.
In 2019, Biological Conservation reported that 40% of all insect species are declining globally and that a third of them are endangered.
theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/14/the-insect-crisis-by-oliver-milman...
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