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Bug expert puts quick-to-squish humans in their place with lesson about respecting little critters

Bug expert puts quick-to-squish humans in their place with lesson about respecting little critters

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Sunday, October 3, 2021 2:43 PM GMT

Iain Phillips almost didn't make it to our interview. He was heading back to his home in Saskatoon when a "beautiful caddisfly" — a moth-like insect often used to model fishing flies — flew past his car window.

"I nearly had a car accident," he said. "There was no opportunity to stop ... but I regret it, and I probably will regret it through to going to bed this evening." 

Phillips is Saskatchewan's senior ecologist for aquatic macroinvertebrates: insects in their early stages of life that spend at least part of their time in water. He finds them in the province's rivers and lakes, brings them back to a lab in Saskatoon and studies them to figure out the impacts of pollution, construction projects and other stresses.

Right now, a lot of Phillips's work relates to climate change and environmental degradation, which he said is causing "chaos" for the insects he studies. 

"This is unprecedented — the way everything is changing," he said. "Never in recorded time in this region have we experienced such changes in temperature, so what will happen next is really a 'best guess' scenario.

"The temperature might be advantageous for one bug or disadvantageous for another. But as the temperature changes, all of that will interact. Everything is connected like a three-dimensional spiderweb, and as one thing gets touched or pushed, it will affect everything around it."

And what happens to the insets he studies can be a valuable early warning sign of environmental problems. 

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