{"id":580814,"date":"2019-02-18T09:17:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b54999944cac0274e1145aef1b92511c"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:17:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:17:40","slug":"what-happens-to-the-natural-world-if-all-the-insects-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=580814","title":{"rendered":"What happens to the natural world if all the insects disappear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are an awful lot of insects. It&#8217;s hard to say exactly how many because 80% haven&#8217;t yet been described by taxonomists, but there are probably about 5.5m species. Put that number together with other kinds of animals with exoskeletons and jointed legs, known collectively as arthropods \u2013 this includes mites, spiders and woodlice \u2013 and there are probably about 7m species in all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are an awful lot of insects. It&#8217;s hard to say exactly how many because 80% haven&#8217;t yet been described by taxonomists, but there are probably about 5.5m species. Put that number together with other kinds of animals with exoskeletons and jointed legs, known collectively as arthropods &ndash; this includes mites, spiders and woodlice &ndash; and there are probably about 7m species in all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580815,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580814\/revisions\/580815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}