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The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

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  • Create Date：2022-02-27 03:19:36
  • Update Date：2025-09-06
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  • Author：Oliver Milman
  • ISBN：1324006595
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Reviews

Katy Buder ，

Thank you Netgalley for the advance eBook copy of The Insect Crisis by Oliver Mailman in exchange for an honest review。It is incredibly evident that the author， Oliver Milman， has put in exhaustive amounts of research and heart into this book。 Before reading "The Insect Crisis"， I knew that the world was already in trouble with honeybee colony collapse disorder and heavily used pesticides negatively impacting pollinators worldwide。 However， I didn't even know the tip of the preverbal iceberg whe Thank you Netgalley for the advance eBook copy of The Insect Crisis by Oliver Mailman in exchange for an honest review。It is incredibly evident that the author， Oliver Milman， has put in exhaustive amounts of research and heart into this book。 Before reading "The Insect Crisis"， I knew that the world was already in trouble with honeybee colony collapse disorder and heavily used pesticides negatively impacting pollinators worldwide。 However， I didn't even know the tip of the preverbal iceberg when it came to the catastrophe awaiting us—and already occurring—with the global decline in insect populations。This is not a happy read， nor an easy one due to the sheer amount of information shared。 There was no perfect bow to tie it together at the end or an uplifting message of hope because， as the title says， this is a crisis。 Instead， Milman focuses on the fragile interdependence of humanity and insect life， and the scientists who continue to research knowing that the balance is shattering。I for one know that I will never look at a little bug the same way again。。。 3。5 stars because my little brain can’t deal with all of these facts one after the other。 Maybe I need to read more nonfiction…exercise this puppy 🧠 。。。more

Elizabeth Mellen ，

Thanks to Netgalley， W。W Norton & Co and Highbridge Audio for the ARC/audio ARC of this！ This was fascinating and just the right tone for me for non-fiction。 Conversational， easy to follow and a little bit snarky almost？ I definitely learned some new facts and gained appreciation for some insects that I’m otherwise a little squicked out by！ Totally recommend if you’re interested in climate change， extinctions， insects， or just want to dip your toes into non-fiction。

Chelsea ，

Thank you Netgalley for the advance audiobook copy of The Insect Crisis by Oliver Mailman in exchange for an honest review。 This was such a fascinating and eye opening book。 It's scary to look at the big picture and see that the decline in the insect population will lead to the decline in civilization。 Listening to this I was made aware of how even in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in my lifetime， there has been a steady decline of bees， grasshoppers， birds， bats and more。 When we used to drive ove Thank you Netgalley for the advance audiobook copy of The Insect Crisis by Oliver Mailman in exchange for an honest review。 This was such a fascinating and eye opening book。 It's scary to look at the big picture and see that the decline in the insect population will lead to the decline in civilization。 Listening to this I was made aware of how even in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in my lifetime， there has been a steady decline of bees， grasshoppers， birds， bats and more。 When we used to drive over Pacheco Pass our car would be painted in bugs every summer， and barely is now。 This is all very disheartening。 。。。more

Andy Weston ，

This impressively researched， but rather gloomy book reveals the frightening consequences of the continued loss of insect life， though a clear accolade to the wonderful their spineless usefulness。 This is the latest in a crop of books with a growing shift in the tone of environmental writing， directly confronting species loss。 There is a tendency is to quote statistic after piece of research after statistic， and for the first part of the book Milman falls into that trap。 As impressive as they ar This impressively researched， but rather gloomy book reveals the frightening consequences of the continued loss of insect life， though a clear accolade to the wonderful their spineless usefulness。 This is the latest in a crop of books with a growing shift in the tone of environmental writing， directly confronting species loss。 There is a tendency is to quote statistic after piece of research after statistic， and for the first part of the book Milman falls into that trap。 As impressive as they are individually， the mind gets exhausted from contemplating them when grouped together， almost developing an immunity to them。 I wanted to know how any plans for conservation was working。 This made Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl stand out。 Or why the figures where what they were。 But in the latter pages of the book Milman provides some detail in this regard。 The chapter on Monarch butterflies was a stand out， as he refers to Isabella Tree’s book Wilding。 There are longer migrations in the insect world- a 4 centimetre globe skimmer dragonfly as once recorded making an 18000 kilometre journey between India and Africa - but the repeated migrations of monarchs in such masses formations， stand alone。 Farmers here in England and even more so in Scotland （ironically。。） have EU money， and will for another 3 years until the project finishes， to create strips of wild， weedy， and undrained scruffy parts of field to encourage this sort of rewilding that will encourage bees， flies， wasps and beetles。 New York City to encourage its infamous scuttling cockroach to relocate from its apartments to green sites on top and between building， its name is Kingsland wildflowers。 Don’t be deceived into thinking this is a long book， at 280 pages - half of it is given to an exhaustive series of notes and bibliography。 。。。more