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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In theory yes. the issue is if the environmental pressure is killing the bugs faster than the replacement generations adapt.
So if you get a generation every year with bugs, there will be adjustments every year. The question is if the pressure that is killing them is something that the bugs already have in their “tool box” of adaptations, and just have those elements breed true.
Or if it is some kind of pressure that cannot be adapted to (or is very very difficult to adapt to), like eating bug poison.
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