More than 75 percent of the world’s insect species are insufficiently protected when it comes to conservation areas around the globe, according to a recent new study.

From our favorites like bees and butterflies, to the lesser appreciated organisms such as wasps and mosquitoes, insects are facing threats such as climate change, and a myriad of other ills such as habitat loss and pesticide use.

Protected areas, also known as conservation areas, are clearly defined geographic spaces that are legally recognized and managed to achieve the long term conservation of nature.

The study was published last week in the journal One Earth, and argues that protected areas can support vulnerable insect populations, but only if their geographic ranges are specifically targeted.

https://grist.org/article/insects-need-better-protection-climate-change/

Apart from the occasional massive kill off events from sudden and sweeping weather changes, isn't this mostly caused by runoff from farms, residential areas, and factories, all of which is saturated with some combination of herbicides, pesticides, fertilizer, heavy metals and toxic waste byproduct that pollutes our waterways and decimates egg populations of insects that breed in and around the water?

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We should definitely protect the bees and butterflies

What about the..?

Bees and butterflies! Yes.