Averting the Insect Apocalypse

Recent studies from around the world show insects are disappearing fast. If this continues, this will have profound consequences for mankind and for our planet, for insects provide a myriad of vital ‘ecosystem services’, such as pollination, pest control, decomposition and recycling.
This lecture looks at the causes of this crisis, at possible solutions including more sustainable farming systems, and at what we can do individually to create insect-friendly habitats.
A lecture by David Goulson
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/i...
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[@donofarrel]

Brilliant talk. We can ALL do something.

[@gertrudlehmann4869]

Thank you

[@diannerussell4849]

My mother and I have noticed this. Also sparrows and blue wrens have disappeared from suburbia.

[@ericrobinson7184]

Excellent overview!

[@markrichter2053]

Say wa’? Is anyone else going like, I know this is a serious talk about the existential threat of insect decline…but LOOK AT THE ELVIS SHIELD BUG!!! how and why does a bug evolve like that? As we’d say at school, that is mental man!

[@yardman8842]

The facts they tryna go to mars to seems to me like this problem is going to be rude out till the end we’re we just go somewhere else or what ever they think wil work

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

We have at least four different wasps in our yard. They are safe here.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Also, we would be knee deep in aphids without the helicopter gunships that are wasps.

[@yardman8842]

There are 0 insect in the air this summer already And so many bird scavenging human trash Don’t be surprised if bird drop to next summer if not in 2-3 years

[@michaelcollins7313]

Grasshoppers?!😉

[@christopherclink6931]

Imagine a giant six-armed insect with the intellect of a human.

[@aperson2730]

24 minutes and 32 seconds in and he STILL hasn't mentioned WHY insect populations are on the decline let alone what can be done about it.