Jokes aside, tits have a key role in plest prevention and insect control. The stuff that eats our food and kills trees won’t be affected by polution as their lifecycle is short enough, but we will bear the consequences.
I think that some synanthropic insects will thrive, even running amok as competition disappears and so do their predators.
In fact birds that previously didn’t show any synanthropic behavior have adapted as well, like hawks hunting during the night as city lights allow them to do so. So maybe we will se more behavioral changes in human environments.
Great tits do forage during winter instead, so they could expand this behavior longer, however caterpillars are their favorite for their chicks due the protein density.
I’m trying to be hopeful, but as you say, as long as the insect biomass is dropping so rapidly, I don’t see them surviving :(
Jokes aside, tits have a key role in plest prevention and insect control. The stuff that eats our food and kills trees won’t be affected by polution as their lifecycle is short enough, but we will bear the consequences.
They are likely going extinct because insects are too though. But yeah, the entire eco system is completely fucked.
I think that some synanthropic insects will thrive, even running amok as competition disappears and so do their predators.
In fact birds that previously didn’t show any synanthropic behavior have adapted as well, like hawks hunting during the night as city lights allow them to do so. So maybe we will se more behavioral changes in human environments.
Great tits do forage during winter instead, so they could expand this behavior longer, however caterpillars are their favorite for their chicks due the protein density.
I’m trying to be hopeful, but as you say, as long as the insect biomass is dropping so rapidly, I don’t see them surviving :(