With arbour week coming up, this is the perfect time to share the fourth and final instalment on the temporary insect exhibition, which went up at the Durban Natural Science Museum back during the COVID pandemic.
The message is (spoiler alert): It’s all about plants!
The first two articles covered the important roles that insects play in nature: pollination, seed dispersal, recycling and improving soil quality, pest control, weed control, and population control. The third article discussed the global decline of insects, and how this impacts our food system.
This last article will cover the last major role of insects: being food for others. Then we ask: if insects are so important for the survival of nature as a whole, what do insects need to survive? How important are insects in nature, as a sum total of all the roles they play? And what is our role in all of this?
Read the full article in Leopard’s Echo.
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