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Here's the thing: is it profitable to preserve the insects? By that I mean, the national efforts that go into preservation of the species costs money, it's an investment, and the investment has investors. The investors are living people with limited time on Earth. Scientifically, we all know, as brilliantly described by the speaker, that the preservation of the spieces is in the best interest of humankind in the long run. However, investors don't care about the long run, they care about making a profit in their lifetimes. So, is it profitable to preseve insects? Directly, to the investors? If not, it won't be done. Lobby all you want, make all the speeches, research in university, create NGOs and justly propagandize it. What you're doing is right and just. It is just not enough, because who decides what effectively gets done on a State level are the capitalists, and they will only do what is profitable for themselves personally in their lifetimes. All of their decisions are tendentially guided by profit. From that follows you can only save the insects in a society where the economy is centrally planned and controlled and guided by reason, that is, in socialism.
Regenerative agriculture is key to fix this and also permaculture at both large and small areas. Plus fix municipal boundries and state boundries and align them with water basins and you can fix all water issues through regenerative strategies
The crazy part is the polydnavirus the wasp injects with the egg. The virus does not harm the wasp. It does not kill the caterpillar, which must survive long enough to gestate the eggs. The virus propagates by living on in the wasp's offspring. This is parasitic teamwork at its finest.
can anyone tell me what the tiny white protuberances on the caterpillars are? not the cocoons, but the tiny dots much smaller and all over the caterpillar. are they somehow part of this process? or are they some anatomical feature of the caterpillar?
Is that an alien intelligence? Or how our intelligence is naiiv to nature's already cruel intelligence in e.erged other species way way older than primates.
Just look. Jewel wasp on one side and periplaneta americana on the other. Jewel takes control of Americana's brain and drags her to a bad fate. My Lord, who is wise in everything, I prostrate before your majesty, do not lead me from the right path.
Amazing. There’s no way blind evolution can come up with such an incredible attack strategy. First question: how does the wasp know about tha anatomy of the roache’s nervous system in order to access it precisely with its venom? Second, how does the wasp select and synthesize the three-ingredient concoction which does the job of altering the roach’s behaviour in such a precise and desirable way for it’s predatory purposes? To me this is proof of DESIGN, hence a Creator. Blind, uncomprehending, hit-and-miss evolution is incapable of achieving this.
I'm curious if you came across any plants that appeared to be resistant while you were doing your research. Either the canola itself or in the multiple other host plants you show in your picture.
