Growing up in the 1960s, I remember car windshields being just covered with dead bugs in summer, especially after highway trips. Thinking back, I haven't seen

Growing up in the 1960s, I remember car windshields being just covered with dead bugs in summer, especially after highway trips. Thinking back, I haven't seen this happen since 1990, at latest. Putting my zoologist hat on, arthropods make up the largest fraction of biomass of any other large animal group (phylum). The next largest, fish, heavily depend on arthropoda for food. As do small birds, and as it happens the worldwide loss of birds is also being called 'catastrophic', at about 40%. That makes me wonder, how much fish have we've also lost? And what's next? https://e360.yale.edu/digest/forty-percent-of-the-worlds-bird-populations-are-in-decline-new-study-finds https://e360.yale.edu/digest/forty-percent-of-the-worlds-bir... When the world's population of insects drops 50% to 80% in only 40 years, this is a VERY BIG problem.