I hear folks saying bugs are dying off because of changes in the environment, but shouldn’t bugs be some of the best equipped to handle changes? I imagine they reproduce faster than humans, and so I’d think their genes could adjust faster as well. You’d think we’d be having a worse time than bugs as the environment changes?
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“Changes in the environment” includes poisons specifically engineered to kill bugs. Not just kill the bugs, but sometimes to kill them in such a way that targets their fundamental structure; the bugs would have to have totally different physiology, which means a fundamental DNA change.
Then we also attack their trophic environment, killing their food sources.
Then we attack their nesting grounds.
Part of evolution is that unsuccessful adaptations don’t make it to the next generation. It’s *very* hard to adapt to humans trying to kill you.
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