Invertebrate Conservation is one of the top conservation efforts we must take on if we are to save the Biosphere. When I talk about saving the Biosphere some folks think it a joke….; "When is the world coming to an end?" We are not saying the world is coming to and end. We are saying that the Biosphere is dying….and it is. It is much later than most of us think it is.
Vertebrate Conservation is the stated mission of the Xerces Society.
Please familiarize yourselves with the
Xerces Society. Here is why:
The chemical giants have perverted us into thinking that all insects should be dead.
In fact, the extinction of insects would be closely followed by ours (inarguably), but if we were removed from the planet, insects would not skip a beat.
There are 4 million species worldwide I think. Only an itty bitty percentage of those are truly our enemies. All others are vital for the terrestrial food web. Without the insects, terrestrial food webs cannot exist, and so you have no songbird photography at all…..zero.
Over 90% of songbird species are obligated to feed their nestlings a diet of over 90% insects…if they are to fledge.
No insects, no more birds.
Insects are one of the most vital links in the flow of energy up through all terrestrial food webs on the Planet. And if we consider that we are waging war on them….then clearly, they become
the most vital component in the terrestrial systems.
We must change our attitudes toward the insects. For without insects, there can be no wildlife at all. Check it out.
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