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[quote=Anonymous]If you are truly wondering, you could do a little research. Scientists study this and measure the number of insects and the decline over the past 20 years is stark - 70% decline, over 6% loss per year. Your own yard may not have declined that much, of course, but you may not notice that you fewer if there are any still around.

It really matters for human health. Insects are the base of the food pyramid, so if they collapse everything begins to unravel. There was an article in the Post recently about a few keystone species that impact human health. One was a frog (that eats bugs) and when its population declines malaria spikes because the mosquito population surges. There are millions of little connections like that we don’t understand. The best way to prevent all of those unknown harms is simply to not kill off insects. Protect their habitat, don’t use herbicides and pesticides unless you have to, and then with great care.

You can decide you don’t like insects or birds or frogs or nature in general, but you need them for your health. If you don’t like them it is perfectly valid to live in a city where there are fewer. But we’ve got to protect the habitat in rural and suburban areas.[/quote]

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