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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Bugs are very diverse. Some species like the Monarch butterfly are very reliant on specific foods, migration paths, and hibernation habitats. There are species of cicada that only emerge and mate every 17 years.
They will be less adaptable than other bugs with shorter lifespans (more frequent genetic iteration) and more varied habitats and food sources. Fruit flies, cockroaches, and ants for example.
~~Parrots~~ [Birds of Paradise?] could go extinct as the rain-forest is cut down, but pigeons will survive in cities.
Edit: I knew parrots were smart. Figured there was competition in the niche with corvids and pigeons, etc. Please provide some good examples in the spirit of the original coupled with the counter examples. I wish to know which cities to mark as parrot strongholds for when they fight our bug overlords, but we still need a good example to tie everything together.
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