Insects Contribute to Climate Change

Humans are often at the center of the climate change debate. But bugs do their part to warm the planet as well.

In Bangkok, experts met to discuss new ways of controlling 100 kinds of pests, which they say are a major contributor to global warming.

"Each cockroach produces 600 babies in their lifetime and we have more than 100 entrants, so our success to date is that we are reducing 60,000 cockroaches without using any chemicals at all and that's the beauty of it," Suchart Leelayuthyotin, director of the Thailand Pest Management Association, told Agence France Press (AFP).

The event usually discusses new methods of pest control, but this year's summit brought with it a global message -- insects cause climate change.

Suchart said bugs are one of the main contributors to global warming because of the CO2 they emit when passing wind.

"Every termite will emit CO2 from their gut because when they consume the wood and digest it they get wind," Suchart explained.

The summit says that by killing the queens of colonies, they prevent thousands of climate changing insects from being born.


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