Helen Czerski @helenczerski@fediscience.org
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Today's Rare Earth was on insects - how they're doing and how we really need to work with them.

Here's my favourite example of how much we take insects for granted: Cattle make wet soft dung but wombat/kangaroo dung is dry/hard, so when cows came Australia the native beetles couldn't cope.

Since there was no fast way to recycle it, cow dung piled up for months/years. A decades-long project brought in foreign dung beetles so fields weren't covered in poo. A similar recent project had the strapline Beetles with Benefits.

You can hear the programme here:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cq4z

BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Are insects the answer?

Helen Czerski and Tom Heap discuss the environmental importance of insects.

www.bbc.co.uk · BBC

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