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Insects Are Disappearing From UK Farms. Why, and What Can Be Done?
Genetic Literacy Prokect ^
| September 12, 2023
| Michael Garratt, Simon Potts, Tom Breeze
Posted on 09/14/2023 1:04:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
I never knew that insects came out according to a calendar. I thought they came out when it was warm. Who knew. Instead of making the case that insecticide kills bees, they go straight to climate change.
Of course insecticide kills bees. That is why farmers adjust the amount, type and when they apply insecticide.
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posted on
09/14/2023 1:27:03 PM PDT
by
fini
To: Boogieman
“The premise of the article seems to boil down to this:
Declining insect population is a threat to farming, and farming is the cause of declining insect population.”
aaaaaandd . . .
WHO forced declines in farming is a threat to humans, and humans are gonna eat insects, so stop farming, starve off the humans, and save the glorious bugs.
It’s a Three-fer!
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posted on
09/14/2023 1:28:10 PM PDT
by
Macoozie
(Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
To: adorno
Those things are killing the whales and now the insects.They've been killing birds for quite a long time. Somehow, when it is windmills killing off life on Earth, it is just fine with the "Save the Planet" people.
To: nickcarraway
They don’t want to be eaten.
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posted on
09/14/2023 1:29:56 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
To: MtnClimber
No insect food for the proles? Maybe people have been eating them. It's what the powers want isn't it?
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posted on
09/14/2023 1:31:32 PM PDT
by
Bounced2X
(Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
To: MarMema
When the Green Plans of the Democrats and their Allies have worked their poison. They will be thankful and glad to get an insect to eat. A rat will be a delicacy.
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posted on
09/14/2023 1:31:51 PM PDT
by
sport
To: nickcarraway
This is the latest enviro buzz. It’s nonsense.
To: nickcarraway
Bill Gates ate all of them......yum....yum.
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posted on
09/14/2023 1:35:40 PM PDT
by
unclebankster
( Globalism is the last refuge scoundrel)
To: Leaning Right
I’ve got to get one of those hats. Carnac the Magnificent, "mystic from the East" the great seer, soothsayer, and sage, who could psychically "divine" unknown answers to unseen questions.
A true visionary.
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posted on
09/14/2023 1:37:35 PM PDT
by
Bounced2X
(Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
To: nickcarraway
So instead of eating insects can we go back to beef and conserve the insects now?
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posted on
09/14/2023 1:48:03 PM PDT
by
LeoTDB69
To: nickcarraway
(insert problem here) = GLOBAL WARMING
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posted on
09/14/2023 1:53:59 PM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
To: reasonisfaith
Yes, they are geo-engineering and that is ruining our environment and killing off species. Many birds and insects have become scarce. This time of year where I live there used to be lots of butterflies. Not very many anymore.
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posted on
09/14/2023 2:00:48 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: dforest
There is a very wealthy guy who gave up his lucrative career to start a farm in rural England(?) He realized that the bees and other insects were disappearing from his a acreage. He made a wet zone on a suitable spot and the insects began to multiply and pollinate his crops. The show in on cable
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posted on
09/14/2023 2:12:45 PM PDT
by
shadeaud
(God gave us the free will and intelligence to choose right from wrong. Use it or lose it!)
To: nickcarraway
Stopping the geo-engineering spraying of Gates’ block the sun sulfur will fix it.
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posted on
09/14/2023 2:56:34 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
To: nickcarraway
The answer is simple, the leftist useful idiots are eating them like they were told, and they are happy doing it.
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posted on
09/14/2023 3:29:49 PM PDT
by
redfreedom
(Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
To: nickcarraway
A few years ago the wackos were claiming that climate change was killing the honey bees and that due to lack of pollination we would all die. Turns out it was a mite. Some bees died, some didn’t and now they are back. But, when the honeybee population was low I had a lot of the smaller black and white native bees all over the place. Garden and crops were fine.
The evil freaks just love to frighten people.
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posted on
09/14/2023 3:40:15 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: nickcarraway
Only took half the page for these phonies to bring up the “warming climate.”
To: MeganC
A census isn’t needed if you have personal evidence. I remember as a child the car windows and front grill got covered with dead sticky bugs from n long trips. That doesn’t happen any more. Last year I drove 10,000 miles on interstates and through farms with nary a bug.
People need some understanding of ecosystems and ecology to realize that the negative implications and unknown consequences of insect population reduction are alarming. They are possibly the canary in the coal mine.
To: nickcarraway
Poor things scurried into government.
To: nickcarraway
They must be eating them all.. o.O
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posted on
09/14/2023 7:14:29 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
(I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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