
"This disappearance threatens the foods humans rely on most, including fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes. Key nutrients, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants would also disappear, potentially weakening immune resilience, increasing chronic disease risk, and altering the balance of human health in ways scientists are only beginning to understand. 'The current silence should not be interpreted as stability. It is a warning,' said Varon."
"Dr Joseph Varon, a Houston-based doctor, issued the stark warning this week, saying insects, including beetles, butterflies, moths, flies, mosquitoes and bees, are disappearing at dramatic rates, a 'critical red flag for ecological instability.' Varon likened the growing quiet to a dangerous moment in medicine, when a patient suddenly goes silent just before a system failure. 'In medicine, silence can be more alarming than noise,' he wrote in The Defender."
Insects are disappearing at dramatic rates, including beetles, butterflies, moths, flies, mosquitoes and bees. The growing quiet resembles a patient suddenly going silent just before system failure, signaling ecological instability rather than resolution. These losses threaten fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes and would remove key nutrients, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, weakening immune resilience and increasing chronic disease risk. A German study tracking flying insect biomass in protected areas over nearly 30 years found populations collapsed by more than 75 percent by 2016. Global assessments show over 40 percent of insect species are in decline and projections indicate up to a quarter could be lost or at high risk by 2030.
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