> Insects are dead because we manufacturer billions of liters of insect-killing liquid to spray fields to feed billions of humans. That surely plays a role, to

> Insects are dead because we manufacturer billions of liters of insect-killing liquid to spray fields to feed billions of humans. That surely plays a role, too. Light pollution of street lights in Germany, however, kills an estimated 1 billion insects _per night_. And then there's cars on the Autobahn, of course. They kill an estimated 100 billion insects per German summer.