The thing about insect numbers is that they can handle a lot of shit, but they're not just dealing with a single threat. It's not just pesticides that's killing them, it's pesticides, habitat loss, climate change and more. These problems compound like weight being added to a table until the table breaks. We can save the table, but if we wait too long to remove some weight, it might break and be hard as fuck to repair.
If we can just remove a couple of stressors, say, pesticides and habitat loss, their ability to handle the other stressors like climate change increases. The more bullshit we remove, the faster they'll bounce back.
For the most part, yes.
The thing about insect numbers is that they can handle a lot of shit, but they're not just dealing with a single threat. It's not just pesticides that's killing them, it's pesticides, habitat loss, climate change and more. These problems compound like weight being added to a table until the table breaks. We can save the table, but if we wait too long to remove some weight, it might break and be hard as fuck to repair.
If we can just remove a couple of stressors, say, pesticides and habitat loss, their ability to handle the other stressors like climate change increases. The more bullshit we remove, the faster they'll bounce back.