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Phys.Org
by Saioa Legarrea Imizcoz and María Ángeles Marcos García, The Conversation Every summer for almost the last 20 years, volunteers from the Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife, both in the UK, have been tracking car number plates. …
Phys.Org
by Universitaet Mainz Throughout the world, we are witnessing not just a decline in the numbers of individual insects, but also a collapse of insect diversity. Major causes of this worrying trend are land-use intensification in the form of …
Phys.Org
by Stuart Reynolds, The Conversation Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there are fewer insects than there used to be. Both the combined weight (what scientists call biomass) and diversity of insect …
Earth.com https://www.earth.com/news/insects-need-urgent-help-to-survive-climate-change/
While the scientific community has previously warned about an alarming decline in insect populations, not much has been …
EurekAlert
For the past five months, the European Commission-funded project ‘European Red List’ of Taxonomists has been reaching out to insect taxonomists to invite them to register at the Red List of Taxonomists portal.
Behind the …
Treehugger
Head down nearly any street at night and it’s likely to be well-lit. This artificial light at night can have an impact on wildlife migration, as well as animals’ breeding, hunting, and sleeping patterns.1 …
Plos.Org https://phys.org/news/2021-06-video-insect-apocalypse.html
It's not just bees and butterflies that are under threat: UConn entomologist and Professor David Wagner says all kinds of insects are at risk for "a death by a thousand cuts." This is …
Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2021-06-evidence-links-insect-population-collapse.html Insects are the most numerous group of animals on the planet. There are an estimated 5.5 million species, 80% of which remain to be discovered. Yet …
ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200608122336.htm
Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2020-05-global-freshwater-insect-populations-years.html
by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich According to a long-term study in a nature reserve in the State of Hesse, environmental changes attributable to global …