Shouldn’t bugs adapt faster than humans?

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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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Other comments are right, but when bugs evolve to adapt to their environment, plenty of species will go extinct in the process bc they didn’t adapt. We also shouldn’t expect bugs to be able to adapt in a short 20-50 year span because a lot of it happens over thousands of years

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