#insect migration

[velvetmasonry]

The Age of Extinction

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[bonniegrrl]

Grasshopper swarms have Las Vegas feeling antsy

A huge migration of grasshoppers in Sin City is bugging people out. 

Read more in my CNET article here.

[eretzyisrael]

Mass Migration: 3.5 Trillion Insects Fly Over Europe Every Year, 8 Times More Than Birds

Since more insects are born in warmer summers, global warming could increase their numbers significantly. Could this bug invasion harm our planet?

In J.D. Salinger’s seminal novel The Catcher in the Rye, protagonist Holden Caulfield asks where the ducks go when the lake freezes over.

We know many kinds of birds migrate south in the winter, toward warmer areas of the world. Some ducks do, too. But where do insects go?

Little is known about insect migration. But a new Israeli study done over 15 years has found that their massive exodus has more impact on our planet than that of bird migration.

In fact, this is the largest biomass movement on the planet: Roughly 3.5 trillion insects fly over southern England each year, the researchers say, and stress that this migration is important to study in light of global warming.

“This bug movement constitutes the largest migration found in today’s world, creating a mass that is almost eight times that of birds that migrate from Britain to Africa,” University of Haifa researchers say.

Read More: No Camels

[yourdogshealth]

monarque

The magnificent orange and black insect in your garden is part of a legendary natural phenomenon. Each year, it goes on a tough 4000 km journey across North America. This amazing monarch butterfly migration takes them from Canada’s north to Mexico’s warm forests. You’re seeing one of the most complex migratory patterns in the animal world. Knowing about these North American butterflies is key to…

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[triviaproofing]

#1467: “Many species of butterflies, like birds, fly south for the winter.”

True.

The most well-known case of insect migration is monarch butterflies, who will fly south from Canada to Mexico for the winter.

[durraknw0327-blog]

Bird, Butterfly, Eel

Bird, Butterfly, Eel Change is all around us.From the first buds of springtime to the first autumn frost, nature shows us that change is all around us and that the world has its own way of beginning anew.Bird, Butterfly, and Eel spend their summers on the same coastal farm, but in the fall they go to very distant and different places. Their journeys to the far reaches of land and sea make them remarkable creatures. James Prosek uses their stories and his own sun-kissed paintings to introduce young readers to the basic elements of bird, fish, and insect migration.