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Insects: Life & Death
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Importance of Insects
$1.25
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Vol FRST, No. 352
Insect Relations
Mosquito: Kills Millions Every Year
Photos: Melissa Pick
Pest Control
- predators & parasitoids
Insect-Borne Diseases
Basic Research
- miniaturization
- populations
- genetics
War!!
- crop pests
- "nest bombs" in Middle Ages
- WWII - plague infected fleas
- cold war - yellow fever infected mosquitoes
Mosquitoes
- malaria (1-3 MM / 500 MM per year)
- dengue
- yellow fever
- encephalitis
- west Nile virus
Fleas
- plague
- typhus
Tsetse Fly - sleeping sickness
Assassin Bugs - chagas
Nutrient Cycling
Insect Products
Ecological
Monitoring
Clothing, Jewelry, Cosmetics, Lotions
... Gypsy moth!
Honey
Bees wax
Propolis
Royal Jelly
Silk
Shellac
Dye (Carmine, Cochineal, Natural Red 4)
Food
High in protein & vitamins
Wildlife
allowable limits of insects in food!!
- choc. 60 parts/100g
- peanut butter 30 parts/100g
- flour 150 parts/100g
- juice 5 eggs & 2 larvae per 250ml
- birds
- amphibians
- reptiles
- small mammals
- bears
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
Livestock
- cattle & poultry
Pollination
80% of Crops - Commercial Pollinators
Forest Devastation
MPB: 18 MM Hectares ... 60% of Pl dead
1 in 3 bites of food requires bees!
- fruits & many vegetables
- nuts, seeds
- hay/alfalfa for meat!
1,000,000 hives - almonds
insect pollinators
- bees (colony & solitary)
- flies
- butterflies
- beetles
CCD a threat to our food supply
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