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Number of words: 433<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chances are, the works of the world\u2019s insects touch your lips every day. The coffee or tea you savor, both are pollinated by insects. Apples, oranges, cabbages, cashews, cherries, carrots, broccoli, watermelon, garlic, cinnamon, basil, sunflower seeds, almonds, canola oil \u2014 all are insect-pollinated. Honey, dyes, even some vaccines<\/a> require insects to come to fruition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vital to the world\u2019s food web, nested in nutrient cycling, and embedded in industries \u2014 the closer we look, the more we see insects as vital to maintaining life\u2019s frameworks. Referring to this fact, famed biologist E.O. Wilson wrote in 1987<\/a>, \u201c[I]f invertebrates were to disappear, I doubt the human species could last more than a few months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is why the precipitous decline of insects<\/a> is raising alarms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insect populations are being reduced at varying rates across space and time, but on average, the decline in their abundance is thought to be around 1-2% per year<\/a>, or 10-20% per decade.
\u201cThink of a landowner with a million-dollar house on a river that\u2019s a little bit wild. And they\u2019re losing 10% to 20% of their land every decade, and it\u2019s horrifying. It means that after even a century, you really don\u2019t have anything left,\u201d David Wagner, an entomologist with the University of Connecticut told Mongabay<\/em> in an interview. That, he says of this comparison, is the danger we now face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wagner has just edited a newly released in-depth feature in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Global Decline of Insects in the Anthropocene<\/a>, in which 56 researchers present scientific studies, opinions and news on insect declines. The journal offers perspectives on the ecological, taxonomic, geographical and sociological dimensions of insect declines, along with suggestions on how we move forward to study and reverse this drain on global biodiversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insect \u201cdeath by a thousand cuts\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a perspective piece<\/a> that leads off the special issue, Wagner and his co-authors address the likely causes of insect decline. The main stressors to insects, they write, are changes in land use (particularly deforestation), agriculture, climate change, nitrification, pollution and introduced species. However, the importance of each stressor and how they interact still puzzles scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are so many good scientists that can\u2019t figure out what the cause is,\u201d Wagner said. He poses the well-known honeybee as an example. \u201cI mean, this thing is worth billions upon billions of dollars and we don\u2019t know why it\u2019s having such a hard time. And I think the reason is, it\u2019s death by a thousand cuts\u2026 most of these things are hit by four or five pretty important stressors, and they\u2019re acting synergistically.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from <\/em>https:\/\/science.thewire.in\/environment\/insect-populations-decline-climate-change\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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