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My car was covered with bugs after a recent trip, but hard to say if that anecdata is any indication of actual insect population stability. If insect population
by didgetmaster 4y ago
My car was covered with bugs after a recent trip, but hard to say if that anecdata is any indication of actual insect population stability. If insect populations are truly in decline, it is hard to see how insecticides used on crops could be responsible for massive worldwide reductions.
Here is an interesting breakdown of how much of the world's surface (particularly the part that includes habitable land) is used to grow crops: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use https://ourworldindata.org/land-use (TLDR: it is a very small percentage)
- phendrenad2 4y agoWell the actual "study" borders on anecdata so your anecdote is helpful information.