The great death of insects | DW Documentary
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- Insects are dying out and scientists and environmentalists are sounding the alarm. Our film team meets entomologists, farmers, scientists, chemical companies and politicians in a bid to lay bare the causes of insect mortality.
Insects aren’t really likeable. They sting, bite, transmit diseases and frighten children. But, on the other hand, they are also fascinating: 480 million years ago, insects were the first animals to learn to fly, and they took over the Earth. Even now, they are fundamental to life on Earth, and are at the beginning of the food chain on which all human beings are ultimately dependent.
But insect numbers worldwide are dropping, creating a rupture of the food chain. Environmentalists and scientists are now extremely worried. Landscape ecology professor Alexandra-Maria Klein from Freiburg, for example, has been researching the effects of human interventions in natural environments for decades and has launched an experiment in a fruit plantation on Lake Constance: What happens when insects disappear? An ominous silence is settling on places that were once humming and buzzing. Why are the insects dying? Author Christoph Würzburger takes a journey into the fascinating world of insects and meets entomologists, farmers, scientists, chemical companies and politicians in a search for the causes of insect mortality.
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Fantastic video and it shows what too many people have done to our mother earth and the lack of respect please keep showing and making these documentaries they are the real story we need to see and use media such as this to educate and reform peoples greedy attitudes and it shows all people still need to learn so much about the real life, Thank you for this very, very nice.
Educating and 'reforming' peoples attitudes is BS ! What are you going to do? Ban people from driving, consuming, having children ....(that would be a good idea but no politician would ever suggest it)
No, nature will have to do it; that is cull us by way of famine, pestilence, disease etc. The spectacular will come too, (storms, earthquakes, volcanoes perhaps) but they are just the outliers; the real leverage will be the widespread death by starvation and civil war!
Mother Earth makes her children eat each other. And idiots like you and other (German) fascists, yes you do it EVERY TIME DW, be too stupid to realize this. Soon your ignorance and the idiots on the other side of the spectrum aka the right, will finally with your combined forces make the world uninhabitable. The planet will be quiet again. All suffering will end and there will be nothing left alive to be hungry, alone, horny, happy for no good reason, or sad. So congratulations hippies. ;-)
@@linmal2242 We all know that our planet is warming up, and being polluted by humans due our present life styles.That extreme weather events, mass deaths of fish, birds, insects, animals and humans has been happening for years around the world and is speeding up. That doesn't mean that people can't change, shouldn't be educated. It's for the benefit of us all to shine light where we are ignorant, that we might act in accordance and with reverence for nature, for our living mother, earth.
Nuclear Radiation is killing them faster than anything else.
Research The effects of the nuclear bomb test, the accidents, the constant release of radioactive particles into the environment.
Yes, Mother Earth doesn't like Geoengineering. Look up Geoengineeringwatch.org for the real causes.
I remember in the 80's and even 90's cars were covered with dead insects. Now you can drive few hundreds kilometres and there will be none.
pony81 holy crap I didn’t even think about that, but you’re so right. When o was a kid I was grossed out at hearing bugs hit the window and eventually we had to clean the bugs off in the summer, but now no bugs.
When I was a trucker you had to clean your windshield all the time. Now there are no bugs
...same here in Coastal Alabama, USA...no bugs all summer, 2019...very odd.
Because we don’t understand how nature communicates with MAN ... we are the only creature with a MIND a self ego of the perception of being an individual that is separate from its physical surroundings, we are the only ones who use alphabet language to communicate a self expression of a perceived reality ... NATURE communicates through ACTION and METAPHORS and SYMBOLS and SPIRIT... when the insects were dying on the cars... they were expressing the HARM that was being inflicted upon the earth and the human paid wages slave who had to sacrifice there life to produce the vehicles and gas... the oil drilling and fossil fuels and mining creates pollution and harm and the cars are the vehicles which are produced by these industries...
As I said before I live in Iowa. Have lived here all my life. In 2010 I noticed something strange. There were no bugs on my outside porch light. My husband and I would walk a mile in the evenings and I pointed out to him that there are no bugs on the street lights. That was and still is scary. Now in 2019 we have no birds. This is really scary. Has anyone else noticed the lack of birds? And B. Rippy, if you have ever lived in Iowa during the winter, you would know that it's almost impossible to take a walk in the evening in the winter here.
I have been telling people this for two years now. Nothing on your windscreen and number plate of your car, there used to be thousands every year.
The irony of this statement is not lost on me.
Drive farther. I got tons on mine going cross country.
Thanks for warning our generation! Any kind advise on respecting insects, etc. is much appreciated.
Totally agree, years ago I would have to clean my windscreen all the time, now hardly ever, sad....
I started saying this and people look at me like "so who cares ? " but it's the big picture they are ignoring.
this could be very bad news for mankind. We could do something about our world but we won't until it's too late.
You are right. I have been driving in Houston area for over fifty years and driving in the same regions the need to clean the front of the car has gone from weekly to never. You still get some bugs on long trips between cities. The only (obvious) bugs that have stayed in numbers are the ants and the mosquitoes.
I always thought nothing would be able to top BBC Documentaries. Now, I’m thinking DW documentaries are as informative, fair and fascinating to watch and learn something useful.
I admit that I sometimes play documentary films as background noise while I’m doing something else, but with DW documentary films often I have to rewind.
Thank you for watching! :-)
I agree.
Quality work and research.
Great work, so important that DW raise these subjects along with scientists.
Raise awareness.
we need more documentaries like these cause many dont realize how much their life will be changed in few years.
And how much is already lost
Petteri Taalas, the secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), told the Talouselämä magazine in Finland that he disagrees with doomsday climate extremists who call for radical action to prevent a purported apocalypse....
When you're dead you won't realize anything anymore. We should all go to sleep tonight, and tomorrow morning wake up nice and dead. And that will be that.
These are psyops! Back in the day the arab countries began to create crops made from organic grass and other vegetations. The idea was to eliminate hunger. The insects moved to these places. They wanted to be in the new crops and propagate their numbers there. The songbirds followed. And the songbirds were then followed by birds of prey. In my country, songbird populations have increased dramatically, with species arriving here said to be near extinction elsewhere. They are teeming here. We are living on an immovable plane currently considered to be flat, as a result of a dramatic, worldwide shift resulting from a change in consensus.Do people realize how easy it is to create a picture of a large group of birds and insects eating together in a crop and then use CGI to remove the picture, to create a panic about severe drops in numbers? That is how easy it takes to fabricate a man - made threat. Yes birds die all the time, and so do insects and we have to show more respect to these species.All these psyops mean only one thing in the end - that we can not trust mainstream news sources to produce proper input and output and share that with us.Conclusively, it is in our responsibility to take care of these things.Whenever people mention disasters they call natural, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis - then I am very wary once politicians are named as solutions to these problems.
Changed? You mean ended
This is happening around the world, I live in Indonesia where in 90's when I growing up, I always love doing bug hunting around my yard and found various kinds of insects, ladybug, butterflies, beetles, dragonflies, bees and etc. Right now, it is empty.....the yard still full with flowers and trees but the lack of other living organism such as insects and wild birds make the yard feel so void, I miss the buzzing sound from the insects, it is pure beauty.
So sad to hear that Carere Tel. I do so miss the birds. I used to wake up every morning hearing the birds sing. I really miss their beautiful voices.
The last time I saw a lady bug was in the nineties as a ten year old. Thank you for reminding me.vid let them walk in my hand before they flew away. My children won't have the same experience
same has happened in French countryside
Same here in India
They are still around. Just head out and walk. I was out today and walked around 1km to-and-fro. I saw 2 small orange butterflies, a bangau (egret; ok technically not a bug, they gorgeous), a dragonfly on some thuja trees (usually there are 3 of them) and nearing home, a purple butterfly, the one with an “eye” pattern - and this one is bigger than usual.
Sadness and a feeling of not being able to do anything is warranted. For sure. But, what we cannot realize through our physical means... perhaps maybe it can be done in some other unconventional ways?
Our Mother communes, but in whispers of breezes and birds. Wishper back. She’s ever listening in the field.
A vibration.
Of sounds or of frequencies,
The wizard,
Tell us a vision,
Of hourly perceptions,
Words cast, worlds made.
The resonance.
Of mine and of hearts,
Are you the mysteries?
We’ve all been waiting for?
In the emptiness of time,
The flower opens, to greet the moon.
I am happy to see that there are massive studies on this subject,
but I fear that it is too little, too late.
Yes Evan , To little to late it is.
...and pointing in the wrong direction...
Pandora box can't be unopened.
Every creature has reason to be on earth. They were created on a purpose and we must respect that.
except for humans
@@bittasweetsymphony726 a very strange and eco-fascist way of thinking there man
Except humans maybe, we are the worst plaque the world has ever had, by far
They evolved to fill specific niches.
Not created.
Ticks, Wasps, Mosquito's. Your turn.
I own 36 acres in the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas. I relocated from southern California in 2004. Half of my property is forest, the other half is meadow. When I moved here, lightning bugs were only around for a couple of weeks. 15 years later, they emerge in early June and remain (by the thousands) until mid September. My property is very noisy from insect music from spring to fall. Absolutely no spraying and the meadows grow wild with just one mowing a year. I look out at dusk and the air is filled with life. Hardly any mosquitoes.
How nice for you. I rent an apartment surrounded by morons. I know that's not your fault. Let us speak on how "Rights" work.
I just left a comment about as a kid seeing and playing with lightning bugs in any semi-clear area.
Sweet! I have a smaller property, but working on making it a refuge for wildlife and making it a food forest too
You should look at regeneraive Agriculture (the "Holistic manegement" of Alan Savory)...
I'm surprised you actually have an increase in insects. Then again, there are very many other causes beyond global warming.
I live in a small rural community, sadly, they have replaced soft yellow street lights with very bright white LED lights to save energy, but these lights are having a negative effects on both insects, plants and trees...this was a great documentary, thank you !!
They also cause rhodopsin mediated photo reversal in humans, destroying their retinal pigment epithelium(causing macular degeneration at an accelerated rate), and disrupt human circadian rythms.
@@blackdoveyt doesn’t surprise me, I really miss the natural light at night,….
@@tomjohn8733 the solution to the problem is expensive. Use incandescent or 2700K LEDs indoors, use low blue light mode on all your screens, and the expensive part is increasing your lutein, zeaxanthin and astaxanthin(from hematoccus pluvialus not the synthetic stuff) intake. Those carotenoids prevent the damage caused by HEVL.
I'm a hunter/fisherman and I have mentioned insecticide dangers on numerous Facebook groups and every time it's the same feedback. "If you ate today thank a farmer". I have been saying for years now that farmers are the biggest polluters in the world, but people treat them as saints
World econonic forum: Eat your bugs!
Plot twist: There are no bugs.
Certain insects,will never die out,they will be here after all humans die out,but only the ones you wouldn't want to eat.
We've lost our way. The contrast between what it was like when I was a kid in the 60's and now is phenomenal. To think in just 60 years so much would be gone. There use to be incredible numbers of aphids, butterflies, catepillars, crickets, moths, bees. Now even where we are in a rural setting, a light bulb outside at night gathers no flying insects.
I've noticed this too...I haven't seen fire flies in years
It wasn’t better “back in the old days” it just hadn’t added up yet, same mentality, its this generation who has killed everything dead and paid off houses and properties with the profits.
I noticed that the sound of crickets had disappeared a couple of years ago, I rarely see butterflies, dragonflies or bees. I hear the gasshoppers and other night sounds late in the summer, but in the time up until then: nothing. Dead silence. And the fireflies about ten years ago used to be like a strobe light show! And I grew up in the sixties myself. What a horrible difference now.
When insects are finished, the birds are finished too
Rohit Khosla, birds are disappearing. Have you not noticed?
And we also...
so few crows now
@@noklarok crows are fine cos they are omnivores. It's those other wild birds with specialised diets such as insects that are at threat☹
@@noklarok when we are all dead crows will be feasting off our carcasses 😉
I remember when cars put bug grilles on the front of cars to make clean up easier. I am 75 years old.
Yep. That and extra hard sponges to scratch the bugs from your windshield.
I have been regularly watching DW documentaries for last one month. Oh My God ! they are so informative, I can't pass a day without watching those. ❤
Bayer and Monsanto poisoned them all
and to finish the job with smart meters and 5G.
@@jamesstewart9531 My solution is to encourage your dogs to number 2 in wooded areas of parks, not on footpaths which should remain illegal. Entire insect ego systems form around that. Brush dogs in local parks and allow some animal hair back into the park environment. Keep some long grasses areas in parks and let flowers grow.
@@DerekFolan I hate it when people don't care when their dog fowls the footpath.
@@jojozepofthejungle2655 Me too. I bring my dogs right into trees and long grass. It all goes back into nature within a few days that way between rain and insects. Dogs understand the difference if you get angry when training them that footpaths are a no go area. I think the go in the bushes law needs to be unofficial though. Too many grey areas, There are grass areas inn parks where dogs should not go too. They can go in places where regular people never go. Bushes and places like that. To insects its food and that in turn provides food up the chain to birds and wasps and probably spiders.
@@jojozepofthejungle2655 Yeah and it's so sticky. I mean what's in dog food that make it stink, slick and harden in places of your shoe you have no choice then to drop them in the trash outside. Ah i feel better now.
I spotted too little insects around me few years ago.I asked many people around me if they also think that there is too little insects around us.And yes,it is reality.So sad,so dangerous.
The German Ornithologist looks exactly I would expect a wise old birdman to look like.
Im a much younger man but ideally I can relate to his outlook on life. Crazy how Im from another country and that me and this man have various opinions in common without ever meeting.
I have noticed this year that there are hardly any insects around. It's very alarming!!! I have broken down into tears about this.
After recently visiting Germany and despite it having a beautiful landscape the lack of birds was something I actually noticed and pointed out. This video explains why
I notice a lack of birds here in BC, Canada. It's so frustrating that I am the only person I know who has pointed this out. No one here seems to bloody notice!! We are doomed with do many sheep getting around.......the human kind.
@@oliviachipperfield6029 Try hanging the bird feeder , i see thousands of birds
We will suffer as well, we pay the price to have killed unknowingly these animals. People have to using chemicals. Thats the key
@@oliviachipperfield6029 thats true, me and my vife have noticed here in Germany too, since we moved here 3 years a go, this due to lack of food, space for these animals and too many chemicals are being burned and thrown int o water.
More experiments we do, more we will destroy this planet, thats sure 100%.
Love Deutsche Vella!!! The best doc's, period!!! Your passion for your craft is obvious. Please don't ever stop!!! The world needs this!!!Thankyou so much!!! Best regards from Canada!!! 🇨🇦
I second that motion. Bella Bella Deutsche Vella !
Thus is greavious, but I'm so thankful for this knowledge, and those who made it possible.
I'm glad to see people care, but not enough.
Thank you for this and all involved, for every program.
I saw on the internet that Denmark is planting fields with wildflowers for the bees and other insects....
There have been no insects on my car windshield all summer, 2019, here in coastal Alabama, USA...Previously, it was a daily task to clean the windshield...a very few birds are present except for the seed eaters. No one seems to notice or care.
People and I don't care about disgusting insects.
@@richtofenchareyre8425 I hope you understand that life on earth would die out without insects
i agree, no one cares or even notices.
I just took a walk ~4:30 a.m. 9/17/20 around my neighborhood, OKC OK. No insects around the street lights, at all, none. A few cicada's and crickets in the trees. A cottontail in a school yard. The day before, a sparrow sized bird with the longer insectivore bill, lying dead on a driveway with no apparent damage from a cat attack.
@@richtofenchareyre8425 You will when the grocery store shelves begin to really dry up.
Thank you for the subtle nod to Rachel Carson's, "Silent Spring." Had we fully heeded that 1968 work, we would not be where we are now.
I never knew that insects have this role in the ecosystem. Great documentary.
With ALL the cockroaches in D.C.🇺🇸?
i never knew trees had leafs
What wasn't stated unless I missed it; is that everywhere around the world, where they measure such things, there is an alarming decrease in insect populations.
We are dying too. We die younger than our grandparents and from the other end - infertility is getting worse.
Blame that on the diet. We're eating all the junk food that's being sprayed by these toxins. All these seeds and cereals that our grandparents never ate. They ate eggs and bacon for breakfast. The animals life was on soil that was never sprayed with toxins, they lived on grass.
When I was growing up there were no Vegetable oils. They're all made from seeds that are grown on millions of acres of soil that are sprayed with weed killer every year and it does go into the plant.
I'm glad fertility of humans is decreasing; we are so very overpopulated! The population growth of the past 50 years has caused terrible environmental devastation.
Isn't human infertility actually a good thing though?
DW Documentary the best channel here in TH-cam.
As an ex bee keeper it breaks my heart.
I've noticed this, too -- here in North Carolina, when I was a kid, lots of caterpillars, butterflies, night flies every year. But now I'm seeing *none*...in the same area. Same thing with birds like woodpeckers, etc.
Same in Minnesota....
@@soil-play California... No more squirrels in our neighborhood
"When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream is poisoned, only then will you realize that you cannot eat money."
Did you even bother to watch the video or did you only want to post an obvious quotation that everyone already knows? No one is even cutting down trees in this video.
Alanis Obomsawin?
there is always hope life is not over until it stops and new life begins
@@robinlillian9471 If you do not see the relationship between this video and the quote, maybe you should not comment.
@@robinlillian9471 You may have watched the video but it feels like you didn't understand it. The quote is very relevant.
I love how this man made his life happy
Absolutely important and informative documentary. Good job DW. Immer machen Sie schones arbeit. Keep it up!!🥇
Hi @Angie A., thanks for watching and commenting!
I'm 90 years old and I've lived most of my life in a forest in Kentucky. I've observed OVER THE LAST 5 YEARS a 70% decline in all insect populations on my property EXCEPT ticks and mosquitoes, I don't know why.
Ah the bloodsuckers perfect!
As a consumer market we need to stop selling and using insect killing lights(they don't kill mosquitos), and as a commercial world to stop spraying "roundup" chemmical that does not discriminate on what it's killing.
If you are referring to the pesticide Roundup, made by Monsanto, it's an herbicide, it kills plants, not an insecticide.
@@marumari6878 watch the DW "Monsanto Papers"
@@marumari6878 Monsanto lies. It also kills insects.
@@marumari6878 And you trust Monsanto?
Great journalism and please keep your videos downloadable for us to share later I'm so overwhelmed on how you are putting a lot of efforts about nature conservation, i learnt alot on the video of the pesticides that are killing bees and insects.
Well done and eye opening Documentary!
DW constantly produces the best on the global market.
Much thanks and respect from the USA!
Thanks for watching and for the positive feedback, Kerry! We appreciate you taking the time to comment and are glad you enjoyed the documentary. :) Be sure to check out our channel for more content. :)
Celebrate living things Life
I remember in my childhood every raining season there's a surge of Beetle populations (we call them salaguinto and salagubang) we collect them and make fun with them, there could be at least a hundred in one tree, now they're very rare the last one I've seen was in 2016.
Here in remote northern Canada, in a wilderness area, where I have lived for 50 years, there has been a definite decline in the mosquito numbers in the last few years. In a way, that's great for us going outside and not being harrassed by them, but the implications are terrifying to me. Here it can't be chalked up to insecticides or habitat loss. Subtle climate changes might be part of the cause, but we have ALWAYS had plenty of mosquitoes around in summer, whether it was a dry summer or a wet summer. Also, when driving on the few roads here last summer, I found only a few dead bugs on the windshield. It used to be hundreds after a trip. Also have noticed a decline in songbird and shorebird populations. I used to be awakened at 4 AM by the racket the birds returning from their winter homes made in my front yard. I no longer hear the choruses of frogs in the spring. The Earth is dying around us. We are killing it.
forest fires
I agree totally but, good riddance to mosquitoes, ticks, fleas and gnats
Meth
We depend on them. Bottom of the food chain
I don't deny that insects are in peril but aren't mosquitoes increasing due to global warming?
I haven't thought about it much until I saw this video ,but, after 40yrs of mostly buggy and full of wild life in central fl, I hardly see any yard birds, way fewer squirrels, lizards, and bugs. I no longer need car bug screens and night lights seldom have " bug halos".
Now that I take notice; I definitely see this is VERY SERIOUS.
Same here (netherlands) I thought I was the only one noticing it. 20 years ago in the summer your windscreen would be full of insects after a few hours of driving. Knowing that insects play such a vital roll in the eco system, and reading here that it's not only happening here in the Netherlands but world wide scares me.
My basement laundry room always had dozens of spiders, spring and summer, just a few years ago. Now, none!
Such docs should be shown on news channels to create more awareness!!
Sadly some goofball would call the documentaries fake news. 😭
No they should be hidden so police don't destroy them
Arthropod extinction? is quite a stupendous documentary! I truly did appreciate it so much. Thanks a lot for sharing! Keep it up!
What's an "arthropod"??
@@bilbobaggins4710 bug.
"Darkness is a natural resource." What a startling, profound and necessary concept.
This is one of the best documentaries. We need to translate it into several languages to show this info to the rest of the cultures, albeit insects are widely preserve in many countries.
I'm lucky that my little isolated village doesn't suffer from such problems but it hurts too see how nature is slowly dying before our eyes. I'm glad that I found this channel and as always good job. You put a lot of effort into creating these documentaries and informing people what is actually going around the world. Thank you and keep up the good work!
Which village
We need the insects we really do. Kids ask your grandad when he started to drive how many insects ended up on his windscreen. Now ask your dad the same question . Now go outside and look at the car on your drive. The difference is dramatic .
You got it.
Yeah i thought a similar thought
If only grandad would have been content living without a car
I have avoided watching this video until now, because I knew how it would effect me. I'm already angered and heartbroken at the situation. Human greediness is shameful. Our disdain of the needs of other species is disgraceful. We need to be reeducated as to what our place in the world really means. We should be the caretakers and not the takers of everything. If we could begin in early schooling of the next generations of children, perhaps we, our "neighbor species" and the earth, may still have a chance.Profit is not life.
I feel the same. Sadness, anger, helplessness. I wish everyone would care about these things as we do. The masses are hypnotized sheep. Companies like Monsanto must go....
@@Curlygirly84 We can relieve some anger and sadness by not being helpless. I bought some land and returned some of it to the birds, and the bugs, and the mice...you name it. I have owls nesting and living in my trees year-around. Also, see hundreds of hummingbird nests, and a host of other native birds. I made homes for them; build wooden nests for birds and hotels for different bees. I make sure all of the birds have water, quail, finches, blue jays, hawks, vultures, and even bees. I often see a dozen cottontails in a single day, jackrabbits, opossums, squirrels, ants that emerge only at night, and yes, snakes and skunks! Love'm all.
My neighbor in Florida has large stones around his house. He had a couple weeds that he thought too much to bend over and pull so fe sprayed all the area with Roundup. Told him he was killing insects and birds. He has no idea and seemed truly surprised and concerned. It has been implicates in Ca. Ban the stuff. Not healthy on crops. Stop eating it.
@@Partysize2 Your first paragraph says it all. Unfortunately, I have not had the option of doing what you have done. I live alone up here in Maine; and I like it that way. I have always loved nature and as a young man I used to often lay by the waterside and watch the frogs and tadpoles, salamanders and crawfish moving about in their world. I am 76 and I have done just that recently and there is nothing to be seen. That is sad. Likewise, I deeply miss seeing multitudes of moths always inundating nighttime lamps. As a young man first experiencing driving a car, I deeply remember the splattering of insects against my windshield. Those days are long gone. The world seems empty now; and so too my life. It feels like everything I ever loved is gone. I too, loved them all.
In Denmark its the same, very few insects on my front window even after a 100 km ride 😟
I'm amazed to see insects one of the reason I like to grow plants wherever I can. It is sad I observed it myself that they're disappearing in my backyard.
I'm so happy to see less and less insects every year. They are so disgusting.
@@richtofenchareyre8425 ..
While consumer pollution needs to decrease, so does intentional pollution need to be eliminated.
Except for honeybees, this is the first time I have seen the decline of insect population portrayed as something bad.
1970s I can recall the street lights were covered at night with moths and bugs. Now I see virtually none.
I noticed far less insects this year
I was so mad seeing farmers spraying during buds opening
The slaughter is heartbreaking
I don't watch TV, I don't even have TV. I have a screen in which I can watch high quality content like the one published by this channel. Thank you so much for informing people about the real important matters
I remember South Germany and Switzerland on a family tour of Europe in the 50s. The numbers of crickets and butterflies were a nuisance in some fields. I wish it was still like that.
This documentary is spot on. Around where I live (subtropical Asia) the only insects that seem to be thriving are mosquitoes. Birds seem to be strangely absent too. I've been here for 3 years and noticed almost immediately that there are few birds and insects compared to where I used to live. Agriculture where I live now is dominated by monoculture and carefully controlled conditions.
We in Australia have lost 90% of the insects I remember in the 1970's, Rhinoceros beetles gone...Green frogs mostly gone (yes I know not insect), giant Mantis gone...Giant moths gone.
Cockroaches and mosquitoes are doing well as usual.
Abyssman UR i remember growing up I used to see Christmas beetles all the time but I haven’t seen one in years. I only ever see cockroaches and mozzies now- I don’t even see as many dragonflies as I used to and I live on land with a dam and everything. I miss dragonflies
@angelo iannacone I blame city lights for the loss of beetles because they end up flying into an environment where they can't survive... any insect using moonlight for navigation gets confused like mths flying around a lightbulb.
@Andreas Arlt the loss of insects started 30 year ago long bef ore 5G
Is Bayer using pesticides in Australia? neonicotinoids. France is the only country that has banned the use. It kills bees, insects, goes into ground waters and kills fish etc in the water. NO one is doing anything about it
Already watched this documentary once, but Yt recommended it again. It actually is such an important topic. Here in Serbia we are still largely unpolluted though foreign investors such as "Rio Tinto" (Lithium mining) are targeting different resources (regions) and natural ecosystems are in grave danger.
I am a lalandscape gardener for 35 years. During this time I have a change in my approach t omg work - it has become more difficult to maintain garden plants and the meetings I have with birds and insects has decreased noticeably. I first noticed a change in weather character 20 years ago.
I'm recently in Alentejo Portugal and I really enjoy the birds, but there is a lot of farm life too. I did not realise I had missed them so much.
I knew something was happening. I have noticed that I have hardly seen any flies this summer, and I may have seen 2 bees all summer. I live in SC this is very alarming to me because I live in a very Rural community. God save us all
i never see wasps anymore :(
@@noklarok do you miss them?
@@melelconquistador yes i miss them, they are cool
Where.did.the.dirt.dobbers.go?.don't. have.many.flies.in.Georgia.eather.lots.of.going.missing
@@rickmeherg7651 dirt dobbers=worms?
I have lived outside 70 of my 80 years. Many insects and birds filled the air with noise, calls, and irritating blue jays, lady bugs, and gorgeous butterflys and so many varieties. I loved it. They were part of my friend world, human world and expected music so to speak. Now I walk in town and on the edge of it. I hardly look up for there is nothing to see and hear. Walks are lonely now, never before. We need birds and insects to farm organically for they dispose of unwanted pests when their numbers were too high. We can't have healthy. food without birds and insects.
Excellent presentation.
I live in the foothills of Mt. Rainier (Tahoma) in Washington State, USA.
I have also noticed a severe decline in both bird and insect populations.
Only 7 years ago, we could hear the summer crickets and grasshoppers chirping in the evening and birds in the morning.
Everyone in the rural area uses chemicals to grow their ornamental lawns, and several water throughout the year even though the surrounding forests are burning due to extended drought and record heat.
I try to be part of the solution by not using chemicals and not watering, and by feeding the birds and offering fresh watering stations.
Now and then we grow clover and wild flowers for the pollinators.
Everyone can help in a small way.
I lived in Germany for some years, and I can attest to their commitement to environmentalism as not other place I have been to. According to this documentary, since the beginning of the industrial era, Germany has seen a diminishing of about 80% in the quantity of insects... If such is the situation in Germany, I cannot imagine how it is in ohter parts of the world.
Great comment. It is the inevitable price of progress, if it can be called that. The explosion of the human population from less than 2 billion at the start of the 20th century to almost 8 billion today has come at a great price.
I think the high interest in ecology is not to be found in the farming industry- at all. Their unscrupulous lobbyism has recently succeeded in getting a substance prolonged which is extremely harmful to bees especially.
It was a scandal completely ignored by the media and the public!
Thank Monsanto for this.
No, the people who buy it, actually!
Muh capitalism.
it is noise and light pollution doing this. shut off your lights, shut down your dildo factories, ban lawn mowers and you will be on the right path
@@asdfregerh1158 I'm talking about responsibility, you're talking about blame. We're not the same.
DW Documentaries are the best... Thanks a lot.
This is the first time I’ve heard concern over the plight of living species like insects linked to the ever expanding human population on earth. I thought that it has become taboo internationally to talk about the need to limit human population. I’m so glad that the scientific community can clearly see that unless all countries seriously buckle down to quickly reduce population growth, we will truly have to worry about the impact we are making on the world our children and our grandchildren will have to face.
What children and Grandchildren? Global warming is not happening but they are using it as an excuse to cut food production...to cause food shortages and blame 'climate change' when they can use DAARPA engineering weather control to cause drought/flood...bankrupt farmers and consolidate even more food production land to either monopolise the food supply or, as they are planning to, cut it off altogether.
The World Economic Forum is the root of all climate evil in the world...
NOT only about human population.. it's MORE about complete disregard for BALANCE in nature..& NOT working WITH nature.. HUMANS ARE the problem, there's no doubt about it. but the WAY ALL humans interact with nature is MORE important People don't CARE... use of plastic bags & bottles, products are made of inferior quality ingredients so breakdown & become MORE TRASH, People don't really seem to care about even eating REAL foods........ processed food PRODUCTS are NOT food.. and then they wonder why humans are so sickly.......... eat junk without any REAL nutrition an YES people will get sicker and die....It's ALL about accountability for our actions........ it's TIME.
Don't worry....with the line up of pandemics, wars, homicides, abortions, assisted suicides, euthenasia, endless disease from denatured food, loss of water worldwide, loss of insects, land that can actually grow healthy food...we should be able to exterminate several billion people....By all means get rid of the people...they are the problem! Do not look for life giving, creative solutions, just get rid of the people........preferrably before they are even born, right?!
If there is room on this planet for them all! When we think about the math and how exponentiality truly works, the truth is terrifying for our children onward.
In the summer if I see a bumble bee it makes me smile because they are so rare now same as frogs, what's happened to frogs.
HEHEH, I was warming up my fishing rods this spring and a bullfrog jumped on my crappy lure! We have them in abundance, as well as tree frogs which sing at night, and many other species in the Chix burb swampland. Also turtles, at least three types.
in the 80's i used to regulalry see frogs in bushes and leafs, but i have not seen a frog in decades.
Frogs are an indication of a healthy environment. They are very sensitive to changes.
All this new home construction and land clearing. There needs to be a ten year moratorium on land clearing in the US. Farming the Monsanto way is harmful too.
Exactly. Monsanto should be prohibited from copyright trolling farmers and from clearing land at the expense of local communities and wildlife.
@B. Rippy Most people live in areas like that and the rest of the people strip the land for homes and large lawns instead of growing insect friendly plants
Yep. And less meat, too. Even if not everyone becomes a vegan, we can all do with less meat and banning of cruelty farms. Another problem here though is cultural: Americans' obsession with privacy and individualism to a fault, which results in sprawling suburbia and houses. Compare, say, cities in Europe, esp. the more traditional ones. Someone in China (iirc, could have been elsewhere) I seem to remember saying something to the effect that Americans were essentially worshipping or buying (? again, memory of details quite vague) loneliness.
@B. Rippy No i'm not jealous of you for sure.. You have problems with your town it seems. We follow strict building codes in my city. One of them is that tall grasses that are beneficial to insects and wildlife are not allowed.
I think think you should all burn down your houses and let it go back to nature. That's belief
Im working on re establishing and maintaining 2000 square meters our property back to wild flower meadow for insects, frogs and other wildlife.
The nearby forest I will only selectivly collect firewood, but take care to keep and let some old trees fall and rot. Thank you for explaining the major effect of electric light. I always see a lot of insects around our outside lights, but I actually never thought it attracted them to the degree that they die. I think I will put timers on the outside lights. Or maybe motion detectors. We need dont need outside lights in the middle of the night!
Do anything you can! Earth has given you your life and everything you own. Its the least you can do!
This documentary was eye opening.
This is sad and must be prevented.
This is happy and must be encouraged.
@@lucrativelyrics2004 hahahah,😜🙋
its damn cars, every road kills every insect crossing it by tires, or hot radiator grills etc, ffs its obvious, too late now tho, save the remaining species but stop driving, but that wont happen
We are so screwed.
Petteri Taalas, the secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), told the Talouselämä magazine in Finland that he disagrees with doomsday climate extremists who call for radical action to prevent a purported apocalypse....
so no.... not really
people are just idiotic
@@camfuinrules You started off well, then went nowhere with that blog!
Naw. People who think the world is ending...are not only idiotic.. but kind of contributing to a form of alarmism...that basically equates to mental child abuse on kids who are exposed to it
Bees for example.... Not dying.. 20 thousand species kicking and honeybees aren't even native to the Americas....native bees did the job just fine...one bee population in one place had troubles... People started doom saying.. and it's just not good.....
Truuuuuueeeee :)
To the point approach & information. Perfectly proved about the indispensability upon the presence of insects in the ecosystem. And indeed, the "fertilizer cocktail" part is alarming! But whenever this production vs biodiversity arises, the problems are shown & so is the cause, but "ONE" thing which we are left out most of the time is, "How to balance it?". We definitely need more documentaries like this along solutions so that one can understand that there is actually a way we humans can coexist without exhausting the nature.
We had a hard time growing vegetables in our garden when we first moved to SW Florida and I realized it was because there weren’t enough insects to pollinate the plants. So I left one garden plot to grow local weeds a shrubs. The next year our second garden flourished. Now I let my lawn grow to seed (4-5 weeks) at the start of the rainy season, and I leave two plots to grow wild. This way my lawn reseeds it’s self, and the flowering plants and grasses attract insects and birds to my yard. All my food plants are in raised beds so I can keep the weeds out, while the wildlife in my yard is recovering in the unattended beds. I also made a rock pile that the local lizards and toads seem to love. 😊
Clearly they pollinated to many flower buds and therefore diluted the amount of energy the tree can divert to each fruiting body. The tree in its "natural" design never expects to be 100% pollinated. This point also somewhat diminishes the criticism that hand pollination is to expensive due to it being labor intensive.
If another experiment was conducted this would show that you can be far more selective and imprecise in successfully pollinate a tree by hand.
1) Only pollinate a certain amount of flower sights, You can calculate the number by finding the most successful tree in the orchid and counting the number of marketable fruit produced and deducting the number of non marketable fruit. Ideally count on a tree that only produced marketable fruit or at minimum produced little non-marketable fruits and numerous marketable ones
2) Do NOT pollinate flower sights in poor positions on the tree, Such as inside the bulk of the leaf mass or under the canopy near the trunk or base of the leaf mass.
3)DO pollinate ideal positions on the tree, External sights high on the canopy with large exposure to light within the entire fruiting season.
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Are you replying to my comment? Because nothing you said in your reply seems to be about what I said in my comment about my home garden.
I assume you’re commenting in the video. If so, no worries. ✌️
Another great documentary!!! Danke!!!
My best friend wants to plant rows of flowers and hedge areas around their 10-acre lot of farmland to save space for wildlife.
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It a very serious warning sign. Thank you DW for informative documentary
This was an informative video segment.. Thanks
Instead of governments handing out taxpayers´ billions yearly to mega corporations - primarily fossil fuel extractors but also those planting giant tracts of monoculture much of which is transgenic, in a rational world these funds would be funnelled into projects promoting sustainable agriculture.
Tragically, corporate, legalized graft in politics speaks with a louder voice than the citizenry´s cry for a safe future and is the greatest impediment to such programmes.
Yes
Tragically, those corporations together with the food industry are very vocal in promoting the vegan and "meatless" way of eating, which will only make things worse...
For years the U.S. Agriculture Bill was written by Colin Peterson, 2nd Dist., MN. He was 100% beholden to Cargill and Monsanto and ethanol promotion. (Ethanol relies on massive miles of corn fields and uses more energy to produce than it creates. It is a boon for the corn industry and a loss for everyone else.). Removing subsidies for ethanol would be a good first step.
The new lunatic GOP primaried Colin Peterson and replaced him with one of their crazies who does not have Peterson's seniority or power.
There is now opportunity to make change in the next Ag Bill and citizens should fight hard for restorative agriculture measures funding increase and disincentives for monoculture farming. Our very survival depends on it.
Sad but true.
Love you DW!!! Greetings frrom Brazil!
>f# you! (*if you're a bolsonaro supporter)
@@lucrativelyrics2004 I'm not : )
@@zorak964 Then we love you.
I was just in the woods yesterday with my daughter, and it was super quiet. It was creepy. Nothing like my childhood.
I'm 59 years old, and here in Wisconsin (U.S.) I remember as children, my brother sister and I, we could go out at night and catch tons of fire flies, using just our hands, because they were so numerous in the fields surrounding our house. Today I barely see any butterflies or bees, and the cricket chirps are much quieter at night now as well. There's also a noticeable decline in fire flies, moths and etc. compared to 10 years ago, which is rather terrifying. Even the mosquitos are gone, and I used to get eaten alive every summer walking my dog, and now no bites at all. It's sad how we human beings can so apathetically and greedily damage our own world, and do so with little regard for the negative consequences to future generations or the survival of all the other creatures that inhabit Earth too.
I have noticed the lower amount of birds in my back yard! Hardly ever see a robin, they use to be everywhere. My humming bird population is 50% lower. I'm in Oregon US.
This summer I had a to trip to north Canada,, I used to drive there 30 years ago and you needed a bug screen over your radiator grill and the windshield needed cleaning every 100 milles. This summer they windshield was clean with only a few marks.. Problem is that this is 100;s of miles from farms or industry. I think we should look at chem spraying as the culprit
I live in Michigan, I remember what you describe happening from when I was a child. I drove 100 miles recently, one single insect on the windshield. Very sad times
Ich lebe in northwestern Ontario mitten I’m bush 75 km von der nächsten Stadt. Vor 15 Jahren haben wir gemerkt das es viel weniger Insekten gibt. Jetzt nur noch ein paar Vögel auch mitten im Wald. Spritzen ist hier. Ich’s das Problem
This video shows about how to protect mother nature from chemical usage and monoculture agricultural practices.
Thanks for informative video.
Great video, more people need to see this
Wow, I learned so much, thanks.
And Germany's Bayer bought it, Monstersanto
Haha - its so laughable, worldwide protests about Monsanto for years & yet Bayer's lawyers & advisers did not see this coming whilst advising Bayer in the run up to this massive deal? what? realistically this is simply not possible at this level of corporate law without massive fraud.
@@quadq6598 Bayern doesnt learnt anything from Nokia adventure :(
More bandying about boogeymen
Mon Santo. You know that means MEINE GESUNDHEIT. MY HEALTH! PFFFF, THAT MAKES ME WANNA PUKE!!! 🤮
this was a great documentary, thank you !!
im glad this video is here. more people need to see this.
it took til july until i saw a bee, and they didnt look busy, they looked Frantic, i live in Maine
Honey bees fall in my pool all the time here in Florida and I rescue as many as I can but I've no idea why they want to fly into the pool.
the bees are fine....google it and stop tripping over nothing
honey bees are NOT EVEN NATIVE TO AMERICA...
so worry more about native bees.........wich for the record....are not in trouble
@@fg146 like beached whales. the wireless soup is discombobulating them.
@@camfuinrules Dude, i dont know what planet your from...oh yeah the earth is flat, But you trust Mainestream news sources?? i WAS referring to the native bees, i dont live on a farm, i live in Portland the insect population is WAY down, incredibly down, in my 50 years living here on the front lines of our defence against Canada ive never seen it so fucking down, theres no birds anymore in the numbers they used to be, (plenty of seagulls) the only bugs around are the bed bugs, (non indigenous), the cockroaches, (who as you know go wherever the fuck they want, mosquitos and ticks which can live off of moose and deer. Otherwise show me a lady bug for example or those million varieties of moths we used to get. I emphatically have to disagree with you, but peace to you man, lets not step on the bugs
Another great DW show Thanks!
Important subject,great doc ,DW
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I have just watched this stunning documentary and must congratulate those who produced it and DW - having worked in the field of climate science for now 7 years - it is imperative that a completely 'spherical' approach to all life on this planet (our biosphere on which all life depends and originates from) be factored into sustaining life in all its forms - this species must, as stewards of this earth preserve all life or we will lose our own - it is way late in the 'game' and dramatic measures must be taken from the insects, to the acidification of our oceans to the loss of glaciers worldwide in addition to every aspect of climate change / global warming and the greed lust for money and 'profits' must be destroyed that drives all of these planet /habitat
destroying realities - all of us on this planet, as individuals must act - our time is quickly running out. M. Brice
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