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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Not many realize this, but sticking with the non-bee pollination theme you have things like beetles, butterflies, moths, some species of flies, ants, wasps... the list goes on.

Non-inscect options include some speciea of bats and birds.

That's not even getting into the tons of other useful things insects do.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

1/4th of all known organisms are a beatle

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Statistically speaking one of them must be a beatle 🧐

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I always said that if I wasn't a human, I would be a rhinoceros beetle (kabutomushi).

Apparently I may have been right!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That is a very strange thing to say but I vibe with it

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I once heard someone smarter than me say that if all insects were to vanish the earth’s ecosystems would fully collapse in 10 years.

Considering what insects do for our planet, I believe it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Also insects are dying but so are other species

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