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Why the climate crisis is making our insects run for the hills - Gary Hartley
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Around the world, different species are shifting their habitats upwards, with potentially catastrophic results for our ecosystems. Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/28/why-the-climate-crisis-is-making-our-insects-run- …

Found: 'insects' and inferring: 'insect'
Diverse landscapes help insects cope with heat stress, study shows
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Phys.Org

by Kati Kietzmann, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)Halle-Jena-Leipzig Global warming is affecting terrestrial insects in multiple ways. In response to increasingly frequent heat extremes, they have to either reduce …

Found: 'insects' and inferring: 'insect'
Climate change exacerbates the challenge of plant pests
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Pests are major causes of crop yield losses. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), between 20 and 40 percent of …

Found: 'insects' and inferring: 'insect'
Insects crave salt and search grasslands for the limiting nutrient
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Science Daily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190206161458.htm
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University of Oklahoma
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A new study examines the nutritional preferences of diverse insect communities from Texas to Minnesota. The team conducted 54 experiments …
Found: 'insects' and inferring: 'insect'
How insects' ancestors learned to fly
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Discover Magazine
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/01/15/insects-fly-wings-glide-evolution/#.XE49Qs8zb1I
Roni Dengler
Before they flew, winged insects had to learn to glide. Scientists say they’ve puzzled out the evolutionary path that …
Found: 'insects' and inferring: 'insect'
Microplastics are being overlooked in river ecosystems, 50 percent of freshwater insects contaminated
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Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2018-09-microplastics-overlooked-river-ecosystems-percent.html
by Julia Short, Cardiff UniversityResearch led by Cardiff University's School of Biosciences has revealed that microplastics are widespread in …
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Birds eat 400 to 500 million tonnes of insects annually
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EurekAlert https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/s-be4070918.php

Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other anthropods per year. These numbers have been …

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Insects Flew Before Anything Else Did. So How Did They Get Their Wings?
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Science https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/science/insect-wing-evolution.html

By ASHER ELBEINMARCH 26, 2018  A fossil of a cockroach dating to the Cretaceous period, about 145 to 65 million years ago. Insects took to the skies much …
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Insect apocalypse? Not so fast, at least in North America
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Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2020-08-insect-apocalypse-fast-north-america.html

by Matthew D. Moran, The Conversation In recent years, the notion of an insect apocalypse has become a hot topic in the conservation science community and has …

Found: 'insects' and inferring: 'insect'
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