It is believed that our planet in the distant past already experiencing a period of global warming, and recently in the American the city of Raleigh managed to find a kind of “message” from that distant era – tiny deadly insects. 
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Entomologist Emily Meinike, who found insects, believes that similar global warming should be repeated in the next 50 years. Her group found a light bug, the size of a glitter, called “scaly” and such insects in hot areas turned out to be 13 times more than in the cold. They settle in the trees and gradually kill them. Of course, beetles were known to science and before, but their numbers are growing rapidly.
For humans, beetles are harmless, but they cause a great loss. environment. The main problem is that bugs spoil trees, which are the most important cornerstone of urban ecosystems. If you consider that the urban environment is not too favorable for plants, with an increase in the number of beetles, a large some of the trees will die. This will lead to even more pollution. air in cities, which means a decrease in the number of healthy people. Besides Moreover, trees are home to birds and other vertebrates, and the death of trees will reduce their number.
Meinike and her colleagues suggest that, although in cities and more comfortable conditions for increasing the number of beetles, but soon time they will appear in the forests. If the trees in the forests die, then the animals living there will become more vulnerable, and all factors in together will lead to irreparable violations in natural food chains.
If you want to understand what the cities of the future will look like, just imagine bare tree trunks covered with stirring carpet of insects.
And now …
Malicious bark beetles destroy thousands of hectares coniferous forests in the best areas of the Moscow region.
What is happening is close to an environmental disaster, the magazine writes. Kommersant Money. According to the regional government, a beetle 43 thousand hectares of forest are affected. Pessimistic Committee Predictions forestry in the Moscow region speak of 70 thousand hectares, Greenpeace speaks of 100 thousand.
In July 2012, the bark beetle typographer attacked Vladimir’s residences Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, the western and northern regions of the Moscow Region, where politicians reside and businessmen. The situation is complicated by the fact that eaten by a bug Trees are not taken out for disposal, but left in the place of felling.
Abnormal heat has led to the massive spread of pests 2010 year. There was a huge amount of weakened, lifeless trees, which are the main food of bark beetles. Beetles also bred on fallen trees that were not timely disassembled, after which the insects switched to healthy plantings. In autumn 2010, each bark beetle attacked printers. tenth tree near Moscow forests. At the same time, forest defenders cannot cutting down dead trees ourselves is considered a violation of the law and the destruction of federal property.
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