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Dinosaurs adapted and changed to live through multiple extinction events just to die by pesticides.



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I'm definitely worried, but at the same time, it would be tempting to say that some insects do in fact need to disappear. (Obviously that's not true, but ticks and mosquitoes suck - quite literally too.)

Also, not quite sure what's up with that, but in the recent years, it feels like there's been an increasing number of jackdaws where I live. I'm not sure I'd even seen a jackdaw by the time I was 18 or even a long time after that, but this decade, it feels like it's the bird I'm most likely to see outside besides gulls (I live in a fairly urban environment).



Ok, anybody here who doesn't take this seriously or care about what's happening, get out. I didn't start a thread about something that concerns me just to attract amoral idiots.



Maybe the birb flew somewhere else.



For birds in particular, out door cats are a massive problem. People should keep their cats inside.



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Chrkeller said:

For birds in particular, out door cats are a massive problem. People should keep their cats inside.

Glad I do that.



CaptainExplosion said:
Chrkeller said:

For birds in particular, out door cats are a massive problem. People should keep their cats inside.

Glad I do that.

No idea how accurate the data is, but many sites claim cats kill 69% of US songbirds, and the raw numbers are 2,000,000,000 a year...  crazy.



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The worst thing is that we live now in a world with governments that straight up deny the causes of this. Climate change is real, guys



CourageTCD said:

The worst thing is that we live now in a world with governments that straight up deny the causes of this. Climate change is real, guys

Some governments should be toppled, and not just for denying climate change.



I've seen it here too, esspevially the last 5 or 6 years as I was a shut in for 5 years last decade and upon returning to the country I was shocked what had happened in that time and now what continues. There's been a drastic reduction in the last five years here. I try to tell people but they won't listen just like they won't listen. There are so any insect that are native here that are just gone, I've not seen a dragon fly in 14 years, Daddy long legs maybe a handful in the past decade when they used to end up in the house by the dozen on a summers evening, ear wigs are rare now. Even the frogs are scarse and there is a severe lack of earth worms in the ground. All that seem to be doing well are garden spiders, flies (apart from bluebottles which are notorius for reproduction), that said there is a reduction in the variety of spider and fly species. Yet snails are doing better than I have ever seen them in my life and the ticks are feeding on some small critters cause they are the same. Thankfully I have seen more bumble bees this year so far than in the last five years, so that's something and they are of most importance. 

I find it so strange people can't see this. It's scary as fuck. There are less birds because of it, the bird songs in spring and summer would be loud enough to wake you up here, alas It's weak and unverified. I've had many a sleepless night over it and the fact that some plants, shrubs and flowers have been blooming in mid winter and some like roses don't bloom anymore in autumn but bloom lightly multiple times a year.