Insects and the Age of Plant-Eating
* Insects lived their entire lives before man landed on earth feeding on plants and animal blood, and after man landed, it became a good food source for living on his blood until the plants that man planted next to natural plants increased, and thus the sources that insects feed on increased as did the numbers of individuals in these sources. In the recent period, man and climate change have caused insects to devour plants with great greed more than before, and insects have become harmful to plants, and in this case the insect is called a pest because of its harm.
* The new change that made insects return to devour plants, whether natural plants or those that man has no role in; Or crops, vegetables and fruits grown by humans, and now let's get to know the role of humans that pushed insects to return to eating plants, and then we talk about the role of climate
First, humans:
_ Since the era of the Industrial Revolution in Europe, a qualitative revolution occurred in the world of discoveries, inventions and control over nature, as humans were able to introduce new chemical elements and compounds, and all of this increased with the success of the Industrial Revolution several centuries ago, which led to the spread of chemicals in all environments, continents and countries of the world, and the quantitative increase occurred in all organisms, and with it, chemicals increased from elements and compounds and the spread of garbage resulting from factories and cars, which caused the death of many wild, marine and river (aquatic) creatures and the spread of mold in the outskirts of cities and suburbs as well as forests, and finally animals agreed from those that the insects of the planet fed on, so there had to be an alternative.
_There have been mass migrations of many types of insects from tropical forests, gardens and agricultural areas spread all over the world, especially with the increase in the number of trees and crops, as well as afforestation operations inside cities and villages and on their outskirts, which prompted the insects living in these environments to devour insects in addition to devouring food grains stored in villages and cities. A new phenomenon began to appear to people, which is the frequent devouring of plants after they turned into an important and sometimes sole food source due to the spread of pesticides and methods of eliminating them, which prompted insects to fight and devour insects. The old types of chemical pesticides also caused resistance to the insects themselves that were used to confront them, so those pesticides no longer had value and the race intensified between pesticide scientists and the immunity that insects had developed, so insect control scientists turned to inventing new materials and methods to combat insects; and our company in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain keeps pace with all modern developments in control methods and new chemicals and new vital elements on the principles of: accuracy, quality, follow-up, comprehensiveness, speed
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