Opinion: Slaughter of everything from cicadas to caterpillars is celebrated as funny and understandable, but this aggression will not stand. We need insects. It’s time to stop the hate. Insect loss is a global, extinction-heralding problem.
A monster with pincer-type mandibles and a glossy exoskeleton broaches a patio table. My muscles twitch with terror, then relax: the bug is smaller than a fingernail. My friend removes a croc and extinguishes life with a swat.Summer means open windows and picnics. Battalions of ants come marching, fruit flies dot drinks, moths flutter at porch lights. Garden produce harbours members of phylum Arthropoda, largest of the animal phyla and the most endangered and least understood.
Bug populations diminish, birds starve, decimation goes up the food chain. Solutions exist, ecosystem-based approaches to pest management, but these initiatives lie outside my backyard purview, where winged wonders crackle to cinders in my neighbour’s zapper.
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