Studies here and studies there and pesticides and habitat loss and …
Scientists can’t yet definitively confirm the widespread loss of insects, but this trend echoes other indisputable signs of biodiversity and natural habitat loss in general. And while scientists can guess what might happen as species die and ecosystems collapse, the natural world is complicated and interconnected. Species die when their food sources go extinct, when the climate changes, when their nesting sites turn into shopping malls, when another species out competes them, or hundreds of other reasons. We simply don’t understand enough to know all of the ways in which species rely on each other. We can only do our best to protect them — even the bugs.
