Why insects are so crucial to life on Earth | BBC Ideas

Insects make up around 70% of all known species - but many are struggling. What if insects disappeared? Biologist David Goulson explores how we can protect them better.

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[saltyyellow]

Nice animation and such soothing narration😊

[hemanta]

Learning through beautiful animation is what makes learning fun.❤

[wadeodonoghue]

Insects beat us to so much architecture, flight, slavery, economies of specialized workers, the more I think about it, the more it looks like we took all the best parts of the insect kingdom and built the modern world.

We do it clean, efficient and more production is our highest goal, we don't look gross to ourselves but essentially we are an echo of what Nature, specifically the insect family, has been doing for millennia.

[legojayman]

Great video! The mass death of the insects makes me very sad :(

[spectrumbots]

I love the idea of having green cities!

Insects are awesome! 🐝🕷🦋🦟

[therealzhenplaz]

sacrificing my youtube recommended for this. thanks school

[MariaMartinez-researcher]

Of course mosquitoes, cockroaches and flies are okay...