Tawny Simisky Talks "Good and Bad" Local Bugs on WHMP

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Tawny Simisky, an extension entomologist in the Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment, recently spoke with WHMP about "good and bad" local bugs:

“The vast majority of insects in the world are not pests...something like less than 3% of the estimated one million insect species are pests. And there’s probably actually somewhere closer to 10 million or more insects on planet Earth, and so that means that the vast majority are beneficial to us. They do things like pollinate our food crops, they’re decomposers of decaying organic material, they have many unseen ecosystem services that our healthy environment…we just would not be able to function without them.”

— Tawny Simisky on WHMP

Click here to listen to the conversation on WHMP.