Скачать или смотреть Bushfire burnt through my property recently: What will happen to all the insects?

I’m not likely to forget February 13th 2024. It was the day a bushfire descended on my local town and destroyed many homes, sheds, kilometres of fencing, and over 2700 hectares of bushland. Luckily, our house survived but everything else was burnt. The house now sits in the middle of a blackened block. That is why it has been a bit quiet here at 'one minute bugs'.

Bushfires in the Australian landscape are a natural phenomenon. But climate change has increased the incidence of extreme fire weather and lengthened bushfire seasons, meaning fires are now becoming larger, occurring more often, and reoccurring in areas where vegetation has not recovered from previous bushfires.

In future videos we will look at how insects have been impacted by the bushfire, and how they recover.