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[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

1/4th of all known organisms are a beatle

[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago
[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Statistically speaking one of them must be a beatle 🧐

[-] Drusas@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

Apparently I may have been right!

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Also insects are dying but so are other species

[-] Treatyoself@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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

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