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Does anyone else find spicing up ordinary words with new cognates amusing? Super-researchers are ultraconcerned about hyperalarming insect megaloss.
In the same thought, it's completely unnecessary.
Does anyone else find spicing up ordinary words with new cognates amusing? Super-researchers are ultraconcerned about hyperalarming insect megaloss.
Prefixes, not cognates.
Maybe affixes?
By the way, yours is an example of Muphry's law. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
And because I'm correcting your incorrect correction, I have a feeling that I've gotten something wrong, too.
I'd be more inclined to blame neonicotinoid pesticides than change in temperature, but seems plausible I guess.
Pollution, pollution, pollution. Is climate change making some kind of impact? Possibly. But it pales in comparison with reckless use of poisons and chemicals.
First the climate came for the coral reefs, and I did not speak up because I am not a marine invertebrate. Then, the climate came for the rest of the arthropods, and I did not speak up because I only have two legs. Then, the climate came for the fishes of the sea, and I did not speak up because I do not have gills. Then, the climate came for the plants, and I did not speak up because I am not a tree. Then, the climat…
Our economic system takes for granted everything that is free and is provided gratis by the environment. If we accounted for the cost to every little thing that is provided for free and paid dues to the entire environment, animals and so on, economic activity would be at a standstill and maybe we, and the environment we live in, would last a few more million years.
Years ago, my family used to drive to our grandparents' village in hot, summer Friday nights. The windshield ended so pestered with dead bugs that the first task on Saturday morning was to drive the car to the river to clean it. I remember it vividly because it was so fun to wash the car with the cold river water. Last August I went stargazing with my wife. We chose a secluded area because it was far away from light…
I drive down to the Georgia coast or down to the gulf through Lower Alabama a least a couple times every year and it's rare to have anything of real size burst on the windshield.
Years ago, my family used to drive to our grandparents' village in hot, summer Friday nights. The windshield ended so pestered with dead bugs that the first task on Saturday morning was to drive the car to the river to clean it. I remember it vividly because it was so fun to wash the car with the cold river water. Last August I went stargazing with my wife. We chose a secluded area because it was far away from light…
At first I thought it was an effect of aging (changes in nostalgia and awareness) but after moving back to one of the cities I lived in and talking to the local bird watching society, it seems to be happening everywhere on massive scales.
And so, slowly, we boil.
First the climate came for the coral reefs, and I did not speak up because I am not a marine invertebrate. Then, the climate came for the rest of the arthropods, and I did not speak up because I only have two legs. Then, the climate came for the fishes of the sea, and I did not speak up because I do not have gills. Then, the climate came for the plants, and I did not speak up because I am not a tree. Then, the climat…
Actually, the earth will kill us, the rich will survive in their underground bunkers, in a few hundred years, it'll clean itself off and we will rise again.
re: "Lister and Garcia attribute this crash to climate. In the same 40-year period as the arthropod crash, the average high temperature in the rain forest increased by 4 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperatures in the tropics stick to a narrow band. The invertebrates that live there, likewise, are adapted to these temperatures and fare poorly outside them; bugs cannot regulate their internal heat." No doubt, this is alar…
The study cited in the paper was carried out on Puerto Rico. There isn't exactly another more suitable climate to migrate to.
This makes me think that the insects which do survive will be better adapted to the higher temperatures. Hopefully the change is slow enough they have time to adapt. And this is nothing to say about the impact of that adaptation time on other species...
More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Connected?
Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/18/1803880115