You said> "_many_ subsequent studies in different regions _all_ cited in the article and _all_ finding a _precipitous_ decline." There aren't "many" there are

You said> "_many_ subsequent studies in different regions _all_ cited in the article and _all_ finding a _precipitous_ decline." There aren't "many" there are only a few. Those are scattered in content, some are unpublished, some are unpublished data, all by varying types of researchers in different fields and with varying methodologies. One study is about spiders, another about insects, etc. This is hardly "Insect Apocalypse" - it is just "Insect Madness". I'm willing to wait until more serious research is done and collated. The fact is this article and many others about "Insect Armageddon/Apocalypse" were triggered by a single study of a a single 220-acre area of German wilderness by a bunch of amateur bug-chasers. Here they are: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/world/europe/krefeld-germany-insect-armageddon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/world/europe/krefeld-germ... And here's their paper that started it all: http://www.bouldercountybeekeepers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Orbrioch-Nature-reserve.pdf http://www.bouldercountybeekeepers.org/wp-content/uploads/20... Read it and weep. A study of 220 acres in Germany. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323533 for criticisms and notes. Not that their work isn't worthwhile (I'll leave that for others to decide). But from their original article we now have many, many misleading and alarmingly shrill articles, all predicting a worldwide insect population collapse based on very little scientific evidence.