insect apocalypse

[Beefriendly]

Would say ZERO.
Unless you subscribe to strange reincarnation beliefs .
Proof of which would be interesting

 

[Erichalfbee]

Would say ZERO.
Unless you subscribe to strange reincarnation beliefs .
Proof of which would be interesting

Nothing so esoteric
I was thinking more on an atomic or maybe “Quarkian” level.

 

[ShinySideUp]

Nothing so esoteric
I was thinking more on an atomic or maybe “Quarkian” level.

Well we all came from stars, it's what passes for a religion for me in that one day I, or at least my component parts, will return to them. Unlike the beliefs of those that are religious I, of course, won't know anything about it.

 

[Walrus]

May the force be with you all

 

[Finman]

I just read that humus would will be finish in the world in 60 years. 90% out of Food grows in the humus.soil.

 

[SWEET]

I've had the same make of car (no change in design) since 2002!

Defender 90 here (moving brick), hardly any bugs tbh.

Drove through Germany some Years back (same car), screen was plastered.

 

[pargyle]

I just read that humus would will be finish in the world in 60 years. 90% out of Food grows in the humus.soil.

There's still going to be tofu ... completely indestructible ! !

 

[Finman]

There's still going to be tofu ... completely indestructible ! !

Yeah...tofu factory will save us. Made from GMO soya.
And Norwegian Salmon.
.

 

[charlievictorbravo]

I've just found time to read the Dave Goulson essay that started off this thread "Insect apocalypse and why it matters"

A lot of thought provoking stuff in there and I recommend it to all beekeepers.

Two quotes stood out:

• "The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to keep all the parts" - Aldo Leopold
• Erhlich and Erhlich famously likened the loss of species from an ecological community to the random popping of rivets from the wing of an aeroplane. It might continue to fly for a while, but if enough rivets are removed then at some point there will be a catastrophic failure.

Everybody who uses insecticide should also read this short essay

CVB

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Same topic, different aspect and location. To witness a catastrophe being recorded in real time, this is a heck of a story. I think CO2 is a distraction from the trouble w'e're really in, tbh.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Life-Great-Lakes/dp/0393246434

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Nothing so esoteric
I was thinking more on an atomic or maybe “Quarkian” level.

You need more than a few million years for that to happen. I just read a book my (dead) father had lying around about the Reimann Hypothesis. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prime-Obsession-Bernhard-Greatest-Mathematics/dp/0452285259 for the morbidly curious: it gets in just in range of A-level maths and is nicely written). There's a number in there 10 to the (ten to the ten thousand) which is genuinely big and might start to cover it. Oops there go the chattering classes again...

 

[Erichalfbee]

You need more than a few million years for that to happen. I just read a book my (dead) father had lying around about the Reimann Hypothesis. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prime-Obsession-Bernhard-Greatest-Mathematics/dp/0452285259 for the morbidly curious: it gets in just in range of A-level maths and is nicely written). There's a number in there 10 to the (ten to the ten thousand) which is genuinely big and might start to cover it. Oops there go the chattering classes again...

Lost on me. O level maths here and only just.
I’m one of the many who read Hawking’s A Brief History of Time” with little understanding. I don’t get Schrödinger’s Cat either.

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

I don’t get Schrödinger’s Cat either.

I'm not sure anyone does. But I sort of get a feel for it itching to see my bees in late January... Dead and not dead...

 

[Erichalfbee]

I'm not sure anyone does. But I sort of get a feel for it itching to see my bees in late January... Dead and not dead...

Love it

 

[Antipodes]

Insectageddon

https://www.abc.net.au/foreign/insectageddon/11604620

 

[mike99]

Lost on me. O level maths here and only just.
I’m one of the many who read Hawking’s A Brief History of Time” with little understanding. I don’t get Schrödinger’s Cat either.

CSE grade 2 for me and I have never read those books. Having said that, I needed to learn Binary and Hexidecimal in my career as a Network Engineer. I even had a Binary watch for a while but I ditched it as it took me several seconds to convert the read out to decimal.

 

[Finman]

Insectageddon

https://www.abc.net.au/foreign/insectageddon/11604620

It is glad to tel to the German professor, that 10 the most important cultivation plants in the world do not need insect pollination.

 

[For want of a better word]

It is glad to tel to the German professor, that 10 the most important cultivation plants in the world do not need insect pollination.

And COTTON uses 16% of the worlds total output of pesticides for a mere 2.3% of the worlds productive growing space!

Why are the planets tastiest food products insect pollinated ?

Yeghes da

 

[Murox]

..................... I don’t get Schrödinger’s Cat either.

I think it was just his version of attempting a Pandora's box.

 

[user 6228]

I think it was just his version of attempting a Pandora's box.

schrodinger thought about a lot biology more than just cats
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/feb/07/wonders-life-physicist-revolution-biology