In the National Geographic article, "Without Bugs, We Might All Be Dead" by Simon Worrall, the audience is told that bugs are the invisible force working throughout the world to keep it running. Mace Vaughan and John Losey, two entomologists, did in-depth research on how much insects contribute economically to the U.S. Most of this comes from wildlife, which insects keep going along because they are the base of the food chain for fish, birds, or mammals. They also work as a pest control and help with the decomposition of dead bodies. Bugs are also part of a huge diet of some countries that lack the needed nutrients from other sources.Bugs have also been used in medical practices in modern day brain surgery. In human clinical trials in the U.S. and Australia they are looking at “tumor paint,” a venom derived from deathstalker scorpions, which attaches to tumors, like a magnet, and highlight the tumor so the brain surgeons know where to cut. Cockroaches are helping scientists resolve antibiotic resistance, due to their high resistance to many infections. There has been a sharp decrease in the honeybee's lifetime. A lot of scientists now figure that the cause has probably been underneath their noses the whole time: varroa mites and stress factors from trucking hives across huge distances for pollination, which happens here in the U.S. but less in the U.K. and Europe. Work is being done on hygienic bees at the University of Sussex, in England, to breed varroa-resistant bees. For without bees pollination would be complicated and food production would be sure to go down. We don’t notice these services because insects are so small and we often see them as this nuisance. But they are the lever pullers of the world. news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/insect-bug-medicine-food-macneal/
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