Where have all the Insects gone ?

[denislawsbackheel]

I accept that flies will be attracted by rubbish etc.
That's a given.
To return to the general point raise.for example..when was the last time you saw a Stag Beetle,a centipede,woodlouse...these 3 were all multiple daily sightings for me as a kid in the 70s....

Millions of wood lice under the pots in my garden.
Red spider mites over the outside window ledges.
Had a wasps nest that we had to get rid of.
Open the patio door at night and millions of the buggers come in attracted by the lights.
Never seen a stag beetle in 70 years.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

It would appear that 75% of insects have been wiped out since 1989....in tandem with the rise of wireless technologies..such as cell phones,cell towers and more recently with wifi

This would suggest impending extinction of all insect species...according to a report by Camillia Scaramanga..who suggests that whilst climate change and invasive species are the reasons offered up by mainstream science and environmental groups...the effect of Electromagnetic Pollution is largely ignored.

It is further suggested that birds and insects are particularly vulnerable to electromagnetic fields which damage their reproductive capacity and disrupt their navigational acumen.

Apparently, Magnetite..which is stored in the beaks of birds,and in the abdomen of bees,helps them to navigate.5G will be deadly to them ,since they absorb far more radiation than previous lower frequencies

I do hope this phenomenon is not also harmful to humans...

I digress...what do other posters think about the possible / probable ? harmful effects of Electromagnetic Pollution on our insect life.?

 

[Kompany Car]

The first sensible ,well thought out reply.
The insect mortality on a car windscreen was always a good indicator of their abundance,particularly in gourgeouly hot summer long summer days.
Their varied absence this summer has been quite clear, for those with eyes to see....without them the songbirds will also die,and the lack of a full throttle Dawn Chorus in many areas of Britain now is worrying..not just for those into wildlife...even the posters who see fit to make silly jokes on this thread should be worried....oops I've slipped into scaremongering.

Seem to remember being able to get a grid from natural England which you put over your number plate and then used to count how many splattered insects were on it and by knowing your distance travelled, you could estimate how many insects there were per sq km from it.

 

[NorthamptonBlue]

It would appear that 75% of insects have been wiped out since 1989....in tandem with the rise of wireless technologies..such as cell phones,cell towers and more recently with wifi

This would suggest impending extinction of all insect species...according to a report by Camillia Scaramanga..who suggests that whilst climate change and invasive species are the reasons offered up by mainstream science and environmental groups...the effect of Electromagnetic Pollution is largely ignored.

It is further suggested that birds and insects are particularly vulnerable to electromagnetic fields which damage their reproductive capacity and disrupt their navigational acumen.

Apparently, Magnetite..which is stored in the beaks of birds,and in the abdomen of bees,helps them to navigate.5G will be deadly to them ,since they absorb far more radiation than previous lower frequencies

I do hope this phenomenon is not also harmful to humans...

I digress...what do other posters think about the possible / probable ? harmful effects of Electromagnetic Pollution on our insect life.?

Bitey, stingy little bastards. Fuck em

 

[nellyonthewing]

I hate wasps and usually dread the September kamikaze offensive but they all just seem to have vanished after seeing loads in summer.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Millions of wood lice under the pots in my garden.
Red spider mites over the outside window ledges.
Had a wasps nest that we had to get rid of.
Open the patio door at night and millions of the buggers come in attracted by the lights.
Never seen a stag beetle in 70 years.

Their distribution is mostly confined to South and South East and has been for a long time.

 

[bluemc1]

I think it’s just when you’re a kid you’re doing kid stuff that will be more likely involve stumbling on insects

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

It would appear that 75% of insects have been wiped out since 1989....in tandem with the rise of wireless technologies..such as cell phones,cell towers and more recently with wifi

This would suggest impending extinction of all insect species...according to a report by Camillia Scaramanga..who suggests that whilst climate change and invasive species are the reasons offered up by mainstream science and environmental groups...the effect of Electromagnetic Pollution is largely ignored.

It is further suggested that birds and insects are particularly vulnerable to electromagnetic fields which damage their reproductive capacity and disrupt their navigational acumen.

Apparently, Magnetite..which is stored in the beaks of birds,and in the abdomen of bees,helps them to navigate.5G will be deadly to them ,since they absorb far more radiation than previous lower frequencies

I do hope this phenomenon is not also harmful to humans...

I digress...what do other posters think about the possible / probable ? harmful effects of Electromagnetic Pollution on our insect life.?

Do you have a link for this. Very worrying if that’s an accurate figure.

Edit: Had a little search and you are correct, flying insect numbers have decreased by 60% in the last 20 years alone….they cite agriculture, climate change, and loss of habitat as the main reasons…..very worrying all the same.

 

[Kompany Car]

It would appear that 75% of insects have been wiped out since 1989....in tandem with the rise of wireless technologies..such as cell phones,cell towers and more recently with wifi

This would suggest impending extinction of all insect species...according to a report by Camillia Scaramanga..who suggests that whilst climate change and invasive species are the reasons offered up by mainstream science and environmental groups...the effect of Electromagnetic Pollution is largely ignored.

It is further suggested that birds and insects are particularly vulnerable to electromagnetic fields which damage their reproductive capacity and disrupt their navigational acumen.

Apparently, Magnetite..which is stored in the beaks of birds,and in the abdomen of bees,helps them to navigate.5G will be deadly to them ,since they absorb far more radiation than previous lower frequencies

I do hope this phenomenon is not also harmful to humans...

I digress...what do other posters think about the possible / probable ? harmful effects of Electromagnetic Pollution on our insect life.?

Personally I think it’s a bit of scaremongering and she probably needs a better understand the physics and how electromagnetic fields are absorbed by living organisms. As someone who has worked in academia, I’m sure a research grant for a few hundred thousand will be right up her street.

Have a read of this if you want to know a bit more re effects on insects.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41...ects are continually exposed to,120 GHz (5 G).

 

[Marklr]

Personally I think it’s a bit of scaremongering and she probably needs a better understand the physics and how electromagnetic fields are absorbed by living organisms. As someone who has worked in academia, I’m sure a research grant for a few hundred thousand will be right up her street.

Have a read of this if you want to know a bit more re effects on insects.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22271-3#:~:text=Insects are continually exposed to,120 GHz (5 G).

Here's the conclusion..

Conclusions​

We investigated the absorbed radio-frequency electromagnetic power in four different real insects as a function of frequency from 2–120 GHz. Micro-CT imaging was used to obtain realistic models of real insects. These models were assigned dielectric parameters obtained from literature and used in finite-difference time-domain simulations. All insects show a dependence of the absorbed power on the frequency with a peak frequency that depends on their size and dielectric properties. The insects show a maximum in absorbed radio frequency power at wavelengths that are comparable to their body size. They show a general increase in absorbed radio-frequency power above 6 GHz (until the frequencies where the wavelengths are comparable to their body size), which indicates that if the used power densities do not decrease, but shift (partly) to higher frequencies, the absorption in the studied insects will increase as well. A shift of 10% of the incident power density to frequencies above 6 GHz would lead to an increase in absorbed power between 3–370%. This could lead to changes in insect behaviour, physiology, and morphology over time due to an increase in body temperatures, from dielectric heating. The studied insects that are smaller than 1 cm show a peak in absorption at frequencies (above 6 GHz), which are currently not often used for telecommunication, but are planned to be used in the next generation of wireless telecommunication systems. At frequencies above the peak frequency (smaller wavelengths) the absorbed power decreases slightly.