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(DIR) Post #B1gjQ1JQuPjVw0XrTk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-27T22:51:53Z
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Consider the slow creeping horror of a spring with no insects. The uncanny unspecified silence of the night. The emptiness and around you the whole ecosystem would be failing from the bottom up... without making a single sound. You might make it to fall, maybe through the first winter but beyond that? When the soil fails? When most of the birds and river fish are gone? It would be the end, but how many would notice it had begun?
(DIR) Post #B1gjX3xZSqu4Akg4Zc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-27T22:53:08Z
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So this is why I rejoice when I see the ants again. When the bees return, and even maybe the mosquitos (some of them) and the shy beetles, and the gnats to tiny to name.
(DIR) Post #B1gjdkZ7yCw837Quae by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-27T22:54:21Z
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If the insects were gone I would assume it was The Rapture.
(DIR) Post #B1glGS1KxByzmTe5o0 by CuriousMagpie@beige.party
2025-12-27T23:12:28Z
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@futurebird Somehow I heard about Rachel Carson's Silent Spring when I was a child - and every single spring since then (I am creeping up on 68) I worry until I see the leaves unfurl and the various insects begin to scurry on their own errands.
(DIR) Post #B1gnNB3icAjl6w5wH2 by nerpulus@mastodon.online
2025-12-27T23:36:08Z
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@futurebird I remember reading somewhere that the dead wood in the forests near Chernobyl does not decay normally because the mold that should eat it did not survive the radiation.
(DIR) Post #B1gnO3Vw9TOY05iEkq by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2025-12-27T23:36:12Z
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@futurebird when you put it like that, yikes 😬
(DIR) Post #B1gpDmwJ7Z4NbjHMHY by agt@pnw.zone
2025-12-27T23:56:50Z
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@futurebird There are shockingly few insects in the central valley of California where the veg is grown. The car windshield stays eerily clean.
(DIR) Post #B1gqFnEx4dhR4cWHEu by astronot@mastodon.online
2025-12-28T00:08:23Z
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@futurebird My family participates in a back yard refuge program run by a friend. Making her suggested changes, year round water, not raking leaves, switching to bark mulch from xeriscape, letting things go to seed, etc.We have seen a crazy increase in our bug community in just two years much to my wife's dismay. So many more flying, crawling and scurrying things about the house. It gives me hope.
(DIR) Post #B1gqqerx9xbVpHLBlg by ATLeagle@mastodon.online
2025-12-28T00:15:04Z
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@futurebird it doesn't get cold enough here for the ants to really go away. I do think there is a major shift going on as this last summer had many less birds. I expect to see a lot of adjustment from the usual behaviors as climate changes so much more quickly than flora and fauna
(DIR) Post #B1gtD8lEu4bCoS34CW by aSweetGentleman@mstdn.social
2025-12-28T00:41:34Z
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@futurebird The more I learn about insects the more I love them.I can't imagine my backyard without the ant colony that's been there for years and all the other bugs buzzing around.My big Spring project is to make my front yard bug-friendly.🐜🐛🕷️
(DIR) Post #B1gtzo7uPUNh0QrGts by Burn_this_@beige.party
2025-12-28T00:50:20Z
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@futurebird No bugs -> no fruit or spices in year one.
(DIR) Post #B1gvw6cFvO4L6GPodE by BenHM3@saint-paul.us
2025-12-28T01:11:55Z
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@futurebird Oh we're there. The number of bugs* has dropped from "clean after every trip" to "clean every other month."*As measured on windshield after weekly moseys in the farmland.
(DIR) Post #B1gx73Y3lpCSj2EpXc by CaptMorgan@freeradical.zone
2025-12-28T01:25:15Z
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@futurebird Do the insects ascend first? Who polinates the flowers in the afterlife?
(DIR) Post #B1gxpMDTixxLMgjgLA by superviviansunshine@jorts.horse
2025-12-28T01:33:17Z
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@futurebird the fact the Great Dying packed up the trilobites, who had weathered five previous mass extinctions, still gives me goosebumpsNothing is immortal
(DIR) Post #B1h88pHCu1UaXMOz2G by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-28T03:28:52Z
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@CaptMorgan I'd think only the insects might be worthy.
(DIR) Post #B1h8tbykA3RkuB4hW4 by GGMcBG@mstdn.plus
2025-12-28T03:37:18Z
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@futurebird With this chronically languishing summer warmth and unnatural smothering balminess, the ants, birds, bugs, flies, and insane amounts of mosquitoes, now and still thrive around these parts.And these parts smell like mildew you ain't never known, because desert folk don't usually have to worry. Tucson stiiiiinks.
(DIR) Post #B1hBhiWIJbtFZzmuOW by celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange
2025-12-28T04:08:47Z
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@futurebird That's the shit my nightmares are made of... for years by now.
(DIR) Post #B1hpWhBAxJfiP2D1OK by cstross@wandering.shop
2025-12-28T11:34:56Z
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@futurebird Arthropod Jesus will save his own! Us degenerate endoskeletal giants can go starve.
(DIR) Post #B1hpvcJ4D2zoWumdgu by xdej@mamot.fr
2025-12-28T11:29:54Z
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Very nice short science fiction, thanks @nev and @futurebird #SSF
(DIR) Post #B1iK6u6rM6HjYVN7HE by draeath@infosec.exchange
2025-12-28T17:17:40Z
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@futurebird I love living where they never go away. Late December at the shore and we could watch ants running around on the sand, see where the bees had dug down to do whatever it is they do down there... hear the grasshoppers wings buzz as they fly.I love it!
(DIR) Post #B1iMrvkVHH769uSzdQ by wauz@mastodon.de
2025-12-28T17:48:35Z
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@futurebirdI insist on antlers!
(DIR) Post #B1itGqhYNWy0HE0qpM by gooba42@mastodon.social
2025-12-28T23:51:38Z
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@futurebird About the same as have noticed it's already begun.
(DIR) Post #B1ix8N7YsFNg2COJ3w by j3rn@fosstodon.org
2025-12-29T00:34:57Z
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@futurebird I was out weeding my garden on the oddly warm day that was today and a couple of bees came by to say hello. It's always nice to see them.
(DIR) Post #B1k3D7KPoOu9Nx0dDk by hiway@mastodon.social
2025-12-29T13:17:44Z
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@futurebird i was sharing my observation of lack of insects on my helmet visor on long tours, with friends over a decade ago, it's only gotten worse since