Less bugs (food) from more pesticides and inhospitable mono-culture farm land, suburban sprawl, toxic car infrastructure and global warming are all likely contributors
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That explains why I'm able to sleep peacefully instead of being woken up by the birds in the morning. A great change if you ask me. Damn birds always wake me up in the morning.
Great point! If we keep on driving the earth into an unhabitable state, eventually we'll all be plunged into the eternal sleep of death and won't have to wake up early every again!
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Silent springs everywhere
Very nice infographic that I have shared with my circle.
As an aside, I suspect this was made with R and ggplot2; it's nice to see the tooling I'm familiar with make such nice graphs.
America should probably stop blanketing the skies via aircraft with millions of gallons of general pesticide (pyrethroids in most areas I believe) that affect pretty much all insects as part of their mosquito control efforts around communities.
Does this still happen? I recently read Silent Spring and, maybe naively, assumed blanket poisoning from planes would surely have stopped by now.
Oh yes, many counties have mosquito control programs, which is understandable because it's to reduce the spread of diseases like West Nile virus, Eastern / western equine encephalitis, Zika etc.
But they still use pesticide that affects all insects indiscriminately in most areas via aircraft.
There are products that target only mosquitos, and it's bacterial not chemical, but you need to apply it to the water while they are still larvae which is harder and more costly. The counties prefer to use the chemical by air because it's easier and cheaper for the most part.