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If you're old enough to remember, it's a little unsettling and strange. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/justpost

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It absolutely harms insects in some ways that increase their mortality, but pesticides straight up murder them and are used just as often if not more

[–] KnightontheSun 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No argument about pesticides, but herbicides are what I am concerned with currently as there seems to be some confusion with their effect on insects. In my ten-minute internet education on the topic, it seems there is a decided effect with herbicides and insects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502833/

Insects directly exposed to herbicides experienced high mortality; while those fed leaf material that had been exposed to herbicides did not.

So, both direct and indirect impacts (melanin and their immune systems) as well as greatly reducing the plant sources they may be accustomed to frequenting is a triple-whammy. I do hate mosquitoes, but I feel bad for all the other bugs and what this will do to the world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

People aren't spraying herbicides for mosquitoes though, they're spraying pesticides that also kill bees, grasshoppers, and beetles. I'm not defending herbicide use, but as far as insect populations are concerned, pesticides are a serious direct threat

[–] KnightontheSun 3 points 10 months ago

I was not implying that people were spraying herbicides for mosquitoes, but merely mentioned them as a sympathetic exception.