Commentary: About 40% of insects face possible extinction in the next few decades owing to habitat loss, ecosystem fragmentation, pesticides and climate change.
Doing so can alleviate challenges to insect survival, such as annual swings in dryness, rainfall, snowmelt and other factors. And we are part of the equation. Let us convert one minute of human life into two minutes of human enrichment of our changing natural world as symbolized by a great spangled fritillary butterfly on Joe Pye weed. On steamy summer days, relish the buzzing of cicadas and chirping of crickets as escapes from beeps and ringtones.
If we listen and observe, there can be an understanding that those slices of wilderness we readily embrace, birds and mammals, are built upon much of what is hidden, especially insects and the life they support. Perhaps doing so can slow the shrinking of nature’s treasure chest, adding restorative grease to its fragile hinges, allowing future blossoming of summer. And insects rule again.Allen Young is curator emeritus of zoology at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
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