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‘This is very alarming!’: Flying insects vanish from nature preserves
Fredericksburg.com based Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental group that promotes insect conservation. “On warm summer nights you used to see them around streetlights.” The windshield phenomenon is not just a trick of Trans Am nostalgia. A small but growing number … Warning of ‘ecological Armageddon’ after dramatic plunge in insect numbers Alarm over decline in flying insects More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas – PLOS |