Insects Around The World Are Disappearing. What Can We Do About It?
Insects are the most abundant group of animals on the planet. There are an estimated 10 quintillion of them on Earth.
But in recent years, scientists have found disturbing evidence that insect populations are on the decline around the world.
The environmental threats to insects are numerous: deforestation, pesticides, and climate change all seem to play a part in declining populations, a phenomenon UConn ecologist David Wagner and colleagues described as a “death by a thousand cuts” in a January 2021 special issue of PNAS dedicated to the issue of insect decline.
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