Where Have The Insects Gone?? With Dr. Jessica Ware
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Where Have The Insects Gone?? With Dr. Jessica Ware

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 10, 202645 min

Bugs are disappearing at alarming rates, scientists are telling us. Bees, butterflies, beetles: all of them have been dropping like flies. And scientists say there are a bunch of reasons to care about this — for example, fewer bugs means less pollination, which means less pasta in your pantry. But recently, some have suggested that all these scientists crying out about the insect apocalypse might just be crying wolf. They say that the math isn’t math-ing and that the insects are doing all right. And this has been bugging us! So we called up Dr. Jessica Ware, an entomologist and...

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Why do so many people seem to have a visceral freak out to insects? Is this evolutionary or learned? It's your parents, man. If you like this one time that you could blame your mom, it's now.

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Doo doo doo, science chats with our favourite nerds. Yeah. Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and this is Science Versus. A lot of us don't think too much about insects, right?

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unless we're chewing them away or squashing them before they bite us. But insects are actually more fabulous and important than you ever knew. They're like these aliens on earth and they survived where the dinosaurs couldn't. It is not an exaggeration to say that life as we know it would not be the same without insects.

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