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I guess it's a 1st World vs 3rd World thing. Also although larger animals seem to be doing better nowadays, insects are not. But those are much less visible.
by misja111 6y ago
I guess it's a 1st World vs 3rd World thing.
Also although larger animals seem to be doing better nowadays, insects are not. But those are much less visible.
- jjcon 6y agoInsects are doing fine in the US but Europe isn’t faring all that well https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1269-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1269-4 > Recent reports of dramatic declines in insect abundance suggest grave consequences for global ecosystems and human society. Most evidence comes from Europe, however, leaving uncertainty about insect population trends worldwide. We used >5,300 time series for insects and other arthropods, collected over 4–36 years at monitoring sites representing 68 different natural and managed areas, to search for evidence of declines across the United States. Some taxa and sites showed decreases in abundance and diversity while others increased or were unchanged, yielding net abundance and biodiversity trends generally indistinguishable from zero.