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    Climate change will significantly impact insects due to their short lifecycles and rapid reproduction. Rising temperatures will lead to faster development, earlier emergence of adults, and shifts in flight periods. Extreme weather may reduce insect diversity and abundance. Some species face extinction if unable to adapt or find new suitable habitats at higher latitudes or altitudes. Insects contribute to climate change through pollination and biodegradation, but pest outbreaks and increased pesticide use could reduce vegetation and increase greenhouse gases.

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    Climate change will significantly impact insects due to their short lifecycles and rapid reproduction. Rising temperatures will lead to faster development, earlier emergence of adults, and shifts in flight periods. Extreme weather may reduce insect diversity and abundance. Some species face extinction if unable to adapt or find new suitable habitats at higher latitudes or altitudes. Insects contribute to climate change through pollination and biodegradation, but pest outbreaks and increased pesticide use could reduce vegetation and increase greenhouse gases.

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    Climate change will significantly impact insects due to their short lifecycles and rapid reproduction. Rising temperatures will lead to faster development, earlier emergence of adults, and shifts in flight periods. Extreme weather may reduce insect diversity and abundance. Some species face extinction if unable to adapt or find new suitable habitats at higher latitudes or altitudes. Insects contribute to climate change through pollination and biodegradation, but pest outbreaks and increased pesticide use could reduce vegetation and increase greenhouse gases.

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    Entomology Group Work

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    Climate change will significantly impact insects due to their short lifecycles and rapid reproduction. Rising temperatures will lead to faster development, earlier emergence of adults, and shifts in flight periods. Extreme weather may reduce insect diversity and abundance. Some species face extinction if unable to adapt or find new suitable habitats at higher latitudes or altitudes. Insects contribute to climate change through pollination and biodegradation, but pest outbreaks and increased pesticide use could reduce vegetation and increase greenhouse gases.

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    Insects and climate

    change
    Effect of climate change on insects
    Introduction
    • Insects are most likely to be affected by climate change because
    environmental factors have a strong influence on development
    reproduction and survival of insects pests and their natural enemies .
    • Insects have short generation times and a high reproductive
    rates ,and hence they are more likely to respond quickly to climate
    change than plants and vertebrates.
    Diversity and community size
    Large-scale changes in the amounts of rainfall caused by
    globalwarmingwill have a major bearing on abundance and
    diversity of arthropods.Extreme climatic events such as drought
    are likely to decrease multitrophic diversity and change of
    composition of arthropod diversity which in turn may affect other
    associated taxa.
    Effect on development and metamorphosis
    Global warming will lead to faster development of immature
    stages and adults will emerge much earlier than before.Observed
    responses include early adult emergence and an increase in
    length of flight period .Changes in butterfly phenology have been
    reported in europe and species have advanced their flight periods
    by 2-10 days for every 1 degree celsius.
    Habitat diversity and
    occupation
    As a result of global warming, insects may find suitable
    alternative habitats at greater lattitudes and higher
    altitudes Genetic variation and multifactor inheritance
    of innaterecognition of environmental signals means
    that many insects will have to adapt readily to such
    disruption.
    Many species may also have their diapause strategies
    disrupted as the linkages between temperature and
    moisture regimes and day lengths will be altered.
    Extinction of insect
    species
    Climate change is one of the major factors for
    species extinction( Arthropods).Mountain species
    and those restricted to high lattitudes are most
    likely to become extinct as a result of climate change
    .
    Species adated to cold climatic conditions will
    eventually runout of habitable areas and eventually
    become extinct.
    Effect
    •
    of insects on climate change
    Insects contribute towards the flourishing of flora
    through enhancement of pollination processes which in
    turn results into precipitation
    Insect pests and pestcides
    •Prevalence of insect pests to natural vegetation ie insect pests that
    feed on floral parts of trees, those that feed on sup ie sap sucking
    insects may cause a dynamic destruction of flora as in some of these
    insects are good vectors of parasitic microorganisms that affect
    several tree species for example beetles are good transmitters of
    tymoviruses,comoviruses etc.As a result several flora are destroyed
    which acutely affect rainfall distribution and atmospheric
    concentration of green house gases leading to global warming.
    •Increased use of insecticides to kill insect pests more especially
    those containing carbonyl sulfides,sulphuryl fluorides and sulphur
    oxides in their prevention leads to environmental problems such as
    increase in the amount of green house gases in the atmosphere such
    as hydrochrolofluorocarbons,methane,sulphur oxides etc leads to
    green house effect and thus wide spread global warming.
    Insects biodegradation and climate change.
    Insects are agents of biodegradation in that they
    breakdown organic wastes emitted to the environment
    into useful components and nutrients which can be
    used by the flora which ensures stable survival and
    establishment of forest communities for example In
    ecological succession ,insects play vital roles in forest
    establishment thus leading to a stable climatic
    pattern .

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