Insects and other species such as the Xerces Blue, Sloane's Urania, Rocky Mountain Locust, Polynesian Tree Snail, Pigtoe and the Pearly Mussel, Madeiran Large White, Lake Pedder Earthworm, Levuana Moth, Cascade Funnel-Web Spider, Caribbean Monk Seal Nasal Mite, and various other insects, amphibians, and animals have either suffered or gone extinct due to deforestation and increased human activity.
Insects are constantly changing. During the Paleozoic Era massive insects existed, some even had a wingspan of 2.5 feet and yet they were practically wiped out my even larger birds. When those insects went extinct, the remaining insects began to gradually grow smaller and adapt to combat various attackers. These insects then had to fight for survival …show more content…
The biggest foreboding danger of all facing humans is the loss of the global honeybee population. The consequence of a dying bee population impacts man at the highest levels on our food chain, posing an enormously grave threat to human survival. Since no other single animal species plays a more significant role in producing the fruits and vegetables that humans commonly take for granted yet require near daily to stay alive. Since 2006 beekeepers have been noticing their honeybee populations have been dying off at increasingly rapid rates. Subsequently researchers have been scrambling to come up with an accurate explanation and an effective strategy to save the bees and in turn save us homo sapiens from extinction. Recent harsh winters that stay freezing cold well into spring have been instrumental in decimating the honeybee population by up to 70%. In the last half decade alone 30% of the national bee population has disappeared and nearly a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have perished. Though the rate of bee depopulation is growing each year, 42% more last year than the year before, even at the current annual rate the estimated monetary loss is a colossal 30 billion dollars a year. With such an enormous loss in revenue, last month’s USDA announcement of just a three million dollar investment in farmer aid in comparison to the formidable challenge seems like a paltry drop in the bucket to making any real dent in the epidemic. With so much at stake, efforts to investigate and uncover reasons for this sudden global pandemic have been robust. A new government study blames a combination of factors for the mysterious and dramatic loss of honeybees, including increased use of pesticides especially in the US, shrinking habitats, multiple viruses, and poor nutrition and genetics. Bees and other insects are suffering because of how humans have changed the world to suit their