Insect Annihilation: Causes for Decline and Strategic Conservation Plan in 21st Century

摘要

Insects are “six-legged companions”, whereas annihilation is a collective term “event involving in sudden decline or damage on the catastrophic scale due to Anthropocene. The decline that may lead to the extinction of 40 percent of the global insect species over the next few decades. pollinators, bees, wasps, beetle populations, terrestrial taxa, and aquatic insects including dragonfly, damselfly, stonefies, mayfly, and caddisfly have lost a substantial proportion of species in the last decades. The main drivers of species declines are change in climate at global leval, intensive agriculture, urbanization, pollution, loss of habitat and biological factors etc. Time is too short for conserving the necessary insect diversity to sustain us. There are six interrelated themes for conservation methods to ensure that insects survive into the twenty-first century and beyond.