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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I’m gonna guess the reason they’ve endured as they have is linked to the sheer numbers of them.

Isn’t it something like all the ants vastly outweigh the entirety of the rest of the earth’s biomass?

Wipe out trillions, 98% and there’s still billions left that made it through whatever environmental change they went through.

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