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The sudden disappearance of pesticides will also mean a population explosion for bugs. Insects are mobile, reproduce quickly and live in almost any environment, making them a highly successful class of species, even when humans are actively trying to suppress them.“They can mutate and adapt faster than anything else on the planet except for maybe microbes,” explains Weisman. “Anything that looks delicious is going to get devoured.”The bug explosion will in turn fuel a population increase in bug-eating species, like birds, rodents, reptiles, bats, and arachnids, and then a boom in the species that eat those animals, and so on all the way up the food chain.
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The sudden disappearance of pesticides will also mean a population explosion for bugs. Insects are mobile, reproduce quickly and live in almost any environment, making them a highly successful class of species, even when humans are actively trying to suppress them.“They can mutate and adapt faster than anything else on the planet except for maybe microbes,” explains Weisman. “Anything that looks delicious is going to get devoured.”The bug explosion will in turn fuel a population increase in bug-eating species, like birds, rodents, reptiles, bats, and arachnids, and then a boom in the species that eat those animals, and so on all the way up the food chain.