If all the insects in the world started to die off...........?

Question

and then there were none.....no gnats, ants, flies etc.,
What do you think the repercussions would be on the ecology of the world....and ultimately ourselves.

Serious answers please.

Dear Indy500
I have never squished a spider or any other creature in my life !!.

Glad to see there are still some intelligent people still left on YA.

Anku
Every creature upon this planet has a purpose, each beautiful and gracious and fascinating. I just wish more humans would see them that way.
Personally, I love the dragonfly, my lord the colours..............

Answer 1

We survive because insects survive.....even if many find them weird they are one of the most important factors for our survival
and also if they die off we would lose one of the most beautiful creatures on earth.....whatever other people think I find them really cute....how do you consider them as!!!!!!

Answer 2

I doubt that the majority of the insects would die off. Now, some useful ones might die or become troubled, as the bee population has been recently. In the end, though, we will always have roaches.

Anytime you have a significant portion of nature die, you will have ecological implications. Each animal, plant, insect, virus, bug, bacteria, etc. have their place in the world. Killing off any one will cause an imbalance that our shortsightedness cannot even comprehend.

Answer 3

Most human beings fail to understand (or simply wish to ignore the fact) that there is a delicate, fragile ecological balance between all men, plants and animals necessary to our very survival. As annoying as some insects might be, without them, we too would vanish.
I find it sad that human beings were given dominion over all things on Earth, and we've failed miserably at being stewards of our environment. Even sadder is that all this ignorance has been for the sake of money and profit.
Surely, someday, we will pay dearly for our gross negligence. -RKO- 06/15/07

Answer 4

the easy answer isn't any. the difficulty stems from the undeniable fact that Colony fall down affliction comprises bees disappearing from a particular section, which will properly be brought about with the aid of would different motives alongside with insecticides, fungi and viruses. yet another difficulty is that there is particularly little documents on organic bee hives around the area, quite no person is familiar with the well being of bees that are actually not stored for honey production. it particularly is although actual that for the duration of areas stricken with the aid of CCD organic bee hives have additionally been affected. That being stated, there are areas of the worldwide that would earnings with the aid of eu bee disappearance. that is with the aid of fact the european bee is aggressive and would kill and colonies hives of bee species community to that section, frightening a delicate insect/plant stability unique to that component of the worldwide. at the same time because it particularly is actual that CCD on eu bee shares might posses a danger to the nutrition reserves of a extensive share of worlds inhabitants the worldwide would not develop right into a flowering plant desert as replaced into reported interior the documentary. back there is particularly little information the two thank you to declare that CCD is effecting community bee populations, yet there is a great deal of information displaying that eu bees place a extensive tension on community colonies. in short, the answer to CCD isn't ordinary to discover and is extra advantageous than probable to be a mix of things putting intense tension on the Hive till it fall down. wish this helps.

Answer 5

It would be the beginning of the end. We may not like every single species, and I admit to being scared of spiders, but every living creature has a reason for being on this earth. If they were to disappear, so would other species start to go. Unfortunately humans would probably be the last to go and we are the ones who deserve to go first and then the world might get itself sorted out. Bring back the dodo!

Answer 6

That would have serious repercushions. Plants would not get pollinated, and would eventually start dying out. All the animals; birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, would all starve, causing a ripple effect in the entire food chain. Eventually, all fauna and most of the flora on Earth would probably become extinct. Humans would probably survive on farming and growing vegetation, but it would be catastrophic.

Answer 7

I live in Thailand and still find it amazing that Thai people like to eat lots of kinds of insects sold by street hawkers. They like beetles, grasshoppers, silkworms - Yuk!!!!!!

So the ecological consequence here would be first a feast, them a famine, then a change of diet.

I wish it would happen. Those insect hawkers stalls stink to high heaven and the sight of someone chewing with an insect leg projecting between their lips is a truly stomach turning, disgusting thing to see..

Answer 8

It would have a cascade effect.
No insects = no pollinators = less plant life = less animal life
No insects = no insectivores = less animal life

It would only be a matter of time before humans were added to the list.

Answer 9

We would all die! No insects - no pollen transportation, no plant growth etc - you go all the way up the food chains and ultimately, we all die.

So think about it next time you squish a spider!

Answer 10

everything that relies on primary producers or insects for a food source, would die off, which are themselves food sources for other predators.
eventually, scarcity of food would climb its way up the food chain devestating most life.
once food shortages got bad enough, humans would start eating each other as has occured throughout history during long term food shortages.

during this time of worldwide cannabalism, man probably would use wit to develop methods to utilize photosynthetic bacteria as a primary food source, while mechanically pollinating crops. mechanical pollination of crops would add to the production costs, and food prices would shoot through the roof. less the middle class and poor probably never would be able to afford it, and would continue to eat each other.

Answer 11

we would already be gone, the bigger species die faster than the smaller species, think like the dinosaurs! the larger animals died first and then some of the smaller animals went years later, but anyways we cannot survive with out insects and smaller species we would have no food