Because these insects are eaten by other animals which are eaten by other animals which are...
You get the point. The food chain can collapse and some animals are doing good things for the environment.
You get the point. The food chain can collapse and some animals are doing good things for the environment.
They are also the primary source of crop pollination. Without them much of our food won’t be pollinated and reproduce well.
We need them.
Does that mean that projected times of death based on decomposition (As seen on the pseudo scientific scenes in CSI) could actually be drifting over time due to less decomposition agents?
Is their any data to back this hypothesis?
Animals, insects, and plants all support each other to become flourishing ecosystems. Larger animals keep the population of smaller animals in check. Smaller animals keep the population of insects in check. I'm not an expert on specifically which animals and insects do what, I just know that a dense, varied ecosystems keep the planet running smoothly.
My favorite writer on the subject right now is 'Charles Eisenstein', who even proposes that ecosystems have a stabilizing effect on the weather -- it might not be that carbon dioxide / higher temperatures produce more chaotic weather systems, but that the ecosystems we are so careless to destroy have regulating effects on the production of clouds and precipitation. The less life there is on earth, the more chaotic the whole system becomes.