‘This year has been dead’: where have Britain’s insects gone? (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty sure it's the cascading effects of global warming

I've seen less insects here in Canada as well, usually I would say hell yeah to less mosquitos and flies but even the dramatic drop of them has me concerned that we'll be seeing natual ecosystems collapse which makes me sad and anxious to be honest

[-] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Climate change is one contributing factor but air pollution and pesticide use has more of an impact. Bees get screwed for similar reasons with neonics

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