When asked to imagine what would happen if insects were to disappear completely, scientists find words like chaos, collapse, Armageddon. Wagner, the University of Connecticut entomologist, describes a flowerless world with silent forests, a world of dung and old leaves and rotting carcasses accumulating in cities and roadsides, a world of “collapse or decay and erosion and loss that would spread through ecosystems” — spiraling from predators to plants. E.O. Wilson has written of an insect-free world, a place where most plants and land animals become extinct; where fungi explodes, for a while, thriving on death and rot; and where “the human species survives, able to fall back on wind-pollinated grains and marine fishing” despite mass starvation and resource wars. “Clinging to survival in a devastated world, and trapped in an ecological dark age,” he adds, “the survivors would offer prayers for the return of weeds and bugs.”

You know, one of my oldest buddies lives in Picton, NZ. Great guy. An Aussie but he loves NZ.

We were deck crew together on a Norwegian freighter we hit up in Sydney.

If he lives in NZ it must be bueno. Also many of your SV billionaires are planning on living out the coming zombie wars there.


"two thumbs up"-Bill and Malinda