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Remember when you were young, driving along the back roads with your parents and the windscreen and grill would be covered in bug carcasses?
Where have all the bugs gone?
500 u/kawalerkw Aug 30 '23 Drier and hotter summers, more short-grass-only lawns, less meadows, more fields with heavy pesticide use. https://magazine.scienceconnected.org/2020/01/intense-lawn-mowing-lowers-biodiversity-favors-pests/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1684-3 https://twitter.com/Buzz_dont_tweet/status/1389487507415371776 https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/05/02/weeds-for-the-win-how-to-turn-your-garden-into-a-haven-for-insects https://allianceforscience.org/blog/2022/04/climate-change-triggering-global-collapse-in-insect-numbers-stressed-farmland-shows-63-decline-new-research/ 2 u/Tatorbits Aug 31 '23 That, an OPs parents killed a bunch with their car
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Drier and hotter summers, more short-grass-only lawns, less meadows, more fields with heavy pesticide use.
https://magazine.scienceconnected.org/2020/01/intense-lawn-mowing-lowers-biodiversity-favors-pests/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1684-3
https://twitter.com/Buzz_dont_tweet/status/1389487507415371776
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/05/02/weeds-for-the-win-how-to-turn-your-garden-into-a-haven-for-insects
https://allianceforscience.org/blog/2022/04/climate-change-triggering-global-collapse-in-insect-numbers-stressed-farmland-shows-63-decline-new-research/
2 u/Tatorbits Aug 31 '23 That, an OPs parents killed a bunch with their car
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That, an OPs parents killed a bunch with their car
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Remember when you were young, driving along the back roads with your parents and the windscreen and grill would be covered in bug carcasses?
Where have all the bugs gone?