Eine Untersuchung von Insektenflecken in Kent zeigt einen „besorgniserregenden“ Rückgang bei Fluginsekten
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3x3wg9pzpo
Von F0urLeafCl0ver
Eine Untersuchung von Insektenflecken in Kent zeigt einen „besorgniserregenden“ Rückgang bei Fluginsekten
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3x3wg9pzpo
Von F0urLeafCl0ver
7 Kommentare
Have honestly been trying to help the poor things myself. Growing nasturtiums for the butterflies and even gave the caterpillars extra cabbage to munch on after they ran out. The parents think I’m mental but I feel like wildlife in general could use a helping hand these days. Will be nice to see all the butterflies emerge in the spring hopefully.
Amazing that they are 20 years late with this revelation. Plant wild flowers guys… in fact, plant anything with a flower. Green lawns are boring.
I now have to help my plants by going around with a paint brush to help pollinate. I am sure some of you who grow toms, peppers, courgettes and the like have found the same thing…. a lack of pollinators. I do plant companion plants too, so lots of marigolds and such. But the pollinators are being taken out with industrial pesticides 🙁 I also have a few ‚wild corners‘ where nature can have an oasis.
I thought there were fewer bug splats on my windscreen in recent years. Seems like I was correct.
20 years ago i couldn’t drive my car in the countryside without full washer bottles every journey clean the insect impacts off my windscreen. Used to be horrific
10 years i couldn’t do the same without refilling every week to a month.
3 years ago i could only count around 10 insect suicide pacts with windscreen all summer.
Last year and this literally zilch impacts throughout the entire extended summers.
The decline has been happening for over a decade just by my own observations and we should all be concerned and doing something local to help.
I might have to do some guerrilla borage seeding around and about. I have far too many just for my own garden and the bees love it!
As a train driver of 25 years, I can confirm the same, nothing like years ago. Windscreens would have to be cleaned properly, some stations had long pole brushes to do while waiting in a platform as the wipers wouldn’t cope and it’d be just smears of dead flies etc. now, it hardly gets anything.
I approached a company with a fleet of vehicles about 10 years ago to analyse their reg plates, in order to monitor ‚insect splatter‘. Went down the CSR route, and they said their environmental impact was being monitored and they were swapping to electric vehicles.
They have not done that. Nor was that even the point of the study! Had I been able to offer them money, they would have probably complied, and therein lies the ultimate problem