With a subhead of: The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do – And Why We Need to Love Them More, Hird’s passionate treatise on the small changes we can all make to support our bug populations, from growing without weedkillers to rewilding our green spaces.
Hird clearly and compellingly shows just how insects and invertebrates are the cornerstone of our global ecosystem. Not only do they pollinate plants, feed birds, support and defend our food crops, and clean
our water systems, but they are also beautiful, inventive, and economically invaluable – bees, for example, contribute an estimated $235 to $577 billion to the US economy annually, according to Forbes.
They say you can’t put a price on nature, but perhaps if we did, those in charge of the policies that directly impact our invertebrate communities and bring about myriad detrimental environmental ramifications, would think that little bit harder about the blanket decisions they make.
Rebugging the Planet: The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do – And Why We Need to Love Them More by Vikki Hird (Chelsea Green Publishing).
