June 30, 2026
No Insects, No Bugs!
No insects, no bugs!
By Freestone Wilson
2 min read
Where, oh where, have all the bugs gone to?!
2014, after my nine days in the hospital, I went through seven years of rehab. This facility had a nice concrete floor patio just outside the activity room. The hall lights were on all night long, and the morning showed me many dozens of dead or dying bugs under the windows on the floor.
Seven years later, no more bugs on the floor, ever.
I have now lived here in my old apartment building for near five years. When I arrived, I would hear the tree frogs croak and see many lizards. They live on bugs. We just had a near-week of rain, but NO croaks of frogs!
From Gardens Illustrated.
https://www.gardensillustrated.com/features/few-bees-insects-summer
"The real reason to panic is not this temporary blip, but the long-term global trend. Our best estimate is that insect abundance is declining at about 1–2 per cent per year, year after year. This decline probably began at least 80 years ago, maybe more, but nobody was counting. A German study found that flying insect biomass collapsed by 76 per cent between 1989 and 2016. The Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife run a UK-wide count of bug splats on car number plates and found a 78 per cent decline in the 20 years from 2004 to 2023."
Wince!
I have recently read that bugs have vanished in the Amazon rainforest. All over the planet, as well.
As the bugs vanish, so do the critters that live on them.
Too, certain bugs do survive and survive well as their insect enemies are now gone.
Ticks!
I hear that some people have never seen so many ticks.
Why…?!
Global warming?
Farm pesticides?
Maybe some influences.
My own idea, you all, is microplastics!
They are now in everything. Maybe making the eggs sterile as they would be in the eggs and in the bugs.
Our brains and hearts are now loaded with them! Sperm count is declining.
I also read that if we all stopped making plastics, right now, the larger plastic junk still will break down to micro levels, such that if we stopped NOW, the amount of micro particles will keep on increasing for over
TWENTY YEARS!
Nothing that we can do. Drink bottled water, for one, maybe except that…
Google AI says…
"Massive Particle Counts: Recent advanced imaging reveals a single liter of bottled water contains roughly 240,000 tiny plastic fragments. About 90% of these are nanoplastics, which are even smaller than microplastics.
Annual Ingestion: Researchers estimate that people who drink water solely from single-use plastic bottles may ingest up to 90,000 additional microplastic particles annually, compared to 4,000 for tap water drinkers.
Source of Shedding: Contamination often originates from bottle caps, plastic bottle necks, and abrasions created by opening and closing the bottle.
Sunlight & Heat Exposure: Leaving plastic water bottles in the sun or heat causes the plastic to degrade and leach particles much faster."
No hope of escape.
Maybe we all will soon become sterile, like maybe the bugs!
Google AI, again…
"Recent research confirms that microplastics are widely prevalent in human semen. Studies detected tiny plastic particles in anywhere from 55% to 100% of tested human semen samples. These particles, commonly including polystyrene, PVC, and polyethylene, are linked to impaired sperm motility and increased oxidative stress."
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