Posted on 08/21/2022 3:53:10 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Oh horseshit! The bugs are as thick as ever.
There is nothing new under the sun, just new people to see it. When it is new to them does not mean it is new. Not at all.
So they want to save bugs but get rid of meat? Can’t have both in many situations.
Livestock grazing takes up 26% of the Earth’s ice-free land area, making it one of the biggest impacts that humans have on wild-animal suffering. Several studies suggest that grazing reduces wild-insect populations (and hence, probably wild-insect suffering) on pasture fields, but some studies point in the opposite direction. Cattle poop supports large numbers of insects, which adds uncertainty to the overall analysis. The fields of organic cattle farms generally have higher insect densities than those of conventional cattle farms.
Whether cattle grazing increases or decreases total invertebrate populations on a given piece of land depends in part on whether the pasture is irrigated. For example, converting formerly dry land in the Western USA into green pastures would likely increase total invertebrate populations.
https://reducing-suffering.org/how-cattle-grazing-affects-insect-populations/
Yet it has become the apparent repositioning of water to large population areas, like in California, and it is moved right past the agricultural areas. So they need to make up their minds, if you want bugs, you need water. If you want cattle, you need water. If you don’t supply water or allow it to run naturally, then bugs and cattle will go by the way side. Now what do you eat...cake?
wy69
Plenty of all the usual bugs here at 7,600 ft. in the Rockies.
The swallows are still here, two weeks later than most years, so there must be plenty of flying bugs. That’s all they eat.
BUGS are EXACTLY why I will always live on, ‘The Frozen Tundra.’
*SHUDDER*
Army Basic Training at Fort Jackson, SC: This Yankee Gal never KNEW Cockroaches grew to the size of a VW Bug!
Further training in the swamps of Louisiana: Good Lord! I STILL wake up screaming, LOL!
Just me but Harris and AOC really bug me and I find Biden, Jill and Liz Cheney to be real pests.😁
Speaking of invasive species, if you check out the weather radar between 7:30am. and 8:00am, you'll see many rings expanding outward all over the state. That's referring to Ohio. The only explanation I can find is, those are millions upon millions of European starlings rising in the morning.. And it's getting worse every year..
"Birds gotta eat too, just like worms" Clint Eastwood.
I have seen very few stink bugs this year. Very noticeable drop from recent years.
yeah yeah. First bees were gonna all die. Then frogs. Is there anything manmade global warming can’t do?
Lots of lightening bugs here (SW Pennsylvania), though may be less than normal.
They appear normal around where I am.
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Here in the mountains of far western Maryland there are more bugs this summer than in any year since I moved here in 2003.
I have noticed a serious lack of Mosquitos here in Atlanta metro. I jusr figured the county was being sprayed. Come to think of it I have not seen many butterflies either.
I just looked up what starlings eat. The source says they are omnivores but insects are their primary food source. Especially while rearing their young.
Apparently no shortage of insects there.
We are so screwed.
How we gonna survive with no meat or no bugs???
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Rabbits, Squirrels, and chickens. And maybe an occasional pigeon!
We have many fewer mosquitoes out near Lake Lanier, GA. Fireflies are way down too. Wasps and bees and beetles are healthy though.
And the ants are ridiculous.
“I’m sorry this fella is lacking bugs.”
He’s a ‘Professor’ at UW Madistan. Did you read any of his quotes? LOL! I’m not sure that he’s even SHAVED, yet!
He has HUGE shoes to fill. Phil Pelateri was our UW ‘Bug Guy’ for many decades. Phil was no nonsense and common sense. This ‘New Kid on the Block’ is trying to stake his claim as an alarmist. And in Madistan, it will work. The Socialists love nothing more than a crisis to use for this or that. ;)
(Usually Tax Dollars are involved.)
I think you've hit on something there, Watson.
Too bad author hasn't put two key factors together. Drought (in many places) resulting in fewer insects. Check with flood stricken areas and you'll find a different story.
I live on a small lake with wetlands, and still very few mosquitoes this summer. And the flocks of starlings have come out of nowhere over the last few years.
Interesting.
Fliezzz.? I don't eat Fliezzz, not when I can get nice...juicy...spiders....He, He, He.....:
From the movie, Dracula 1931..
Would you care to rephrase that ?
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