Insectageddon: is global insect extinction real?
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- News headlines in recent years have proclaimed that over 40% of all insect species are in decline, and many approach extinction. But are these numbers correct? Is the reality better, or even much worse, than we think?
Entomologist, broadcaster, and author Professor Adam Hart leads a panel debate of international insect experts to discuss these headlines, crunch the numbers and analyse the fact and fiction behind global insect extinction.
Join Adam alongside National Museums Scotland entomology collection curator Ashleigh Whiffin, insect decline ecologist Dr Manu Saunders, and biodiversity specialist Dr Nick Isaac to find out the latest on this contentious and vital issue and ask your questions to the panel.
Organised by the British Ecological Society in association with the Royal Entomological Society for celebrating ‘Insect Week’
Our panel:
Adam Hart is an entomologist, Trustee of the Royal Entomological Society, and Professor of Science Communication at the University of Gloucestershire. As well as research and teaching, he is a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, presenting documentaries on topics from trophy hunting to tree diseases. He has also presented the weekly science program Science in Action for the BBC World Service. On television, Adam has co-presented several documentary series, most notably BBC4’s Planet Ant and BBC2’s Hive Alive. Adam is also an author of many popular science books, including ‘Unfit for Purpose: when human evolution collides with the modern world’
Dr Nick Isaac is a macroecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. His research team develops methods for the analysis of biodiversity data, including for unstructured occurrence records and for biodiversity indicators. His research describes trends in biodiversity and investigates the causes of these trends, mostly using data on UK invertebrates.
Ashleigh Whiffin is Assistant Curator of Entomology at National Museums Scotland, responsible for the care and development of the insect collection, containing approximately 2.5 million specimens. Her research focuses around carrion ecology, specialising on Carrion Beetles (which are vital for the decomposition of vertebrate remains), for which she also co-organises a National Recording Scheme for. She works closely with several entomological groups to promote her subject, including working with the Royal Entomological Society’s Outreach & Development committee and is the current Chair of Edinburgh Entomological Club; and internationally, she is co-communications officer for the Entomological Collections Network.
Dr Manu Saunders is a Lecturer in Ecology at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. Manu has published critical articles about the widely reported ‘insect apocalypse’. Her research focuses largely on how insects create links between habitats and people, and how land use changes and agricultural management influences biodiversity and ecosystem processes at local and landscape scales. Manu is also a science communicator, and founder of ‘Wild Pollinator Count’, a non-profit organisation promoting evidence-based conservation of native pollinator insects across Oceania.
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Species conservation campaigns fall short on their stated goals Unless they are promoted within the legislated sustainable conservation of habitat.
Protect habitat and species will recover themselves.
Very thankful that we have access to this kind of discussion! Much appreciated
57 in Oz qld , right now in sept 22 this spring\summer for the first time ever I can find no grasshoppers on my weed plants, not a one where there were always hundreds and many species, no insects on the windows at night where there used to be thousands and no bees even natives to be seen, its a really different year and I for one am starting to feel uneasy from what I see..nothing...
Great discussion, thanks for posting
Alas I can't agree on the increase of invertebrates in rivers at least not here in Devon. All the rivers I fish have seen a dramatic decline in fly life with some species of Olives now bordering on extinction. Even land bred insects like black gnats and hawthorn flies have all but disappeared. Very sad.
Started off good but when you include graphs you ought to include some sort of info as to what the colored in boxes mean (or just tell us); what do the different shades of black and grey represent.
In the netherlands I've seen less and less shrooms pop up and i wonder how declining mycelium affects insect populations, especially for beetles and other ground dwellers.
Thank you for video. Best entomology greetings from Ukraine.😮😮😮😊😊😊😊😅
And insects are still here, burrowing into our apples and plums. I don't need to be conditioned to see their damage. Nobody except entomologists loves moths: when they realize that the Maggots (caterpillars) are the same species. Absolutely fantastic names like the codling moth and the pantry moth.
I'm going to start breeding carrion beetles. They're pretty cute, and they seem like they would love the same death metal bands I do
You can't sort a problem till you know for definite the causes
Does stepping on bugs cause bug extinction? Do native species do that in wildlife?
Wonderful and good discussion,by a great ecologist.. I just want to know that does telecommunication towers installed in the mustard crop field could effect the productivity and pollinating capacity of the bees in the long run? Since, RFR (Radio Frequency Radiation) is released from such towers..
Lazy gardener, check! Lots of flowers in my not so mown lawn :-)
Hello, my friend. 💚💚💙💙💚💚💙💙💚💚
In the end, humanity with die because they didn't care for the smallest among them
there,s not an insect in Scotland the losses are, Salmon Trout fly eating birds swallows house martins and mallard ducks there young are total insects eaters
too much wasted time before talking - carbon footprint