Plummeting Insect Numbers 'Threaten Collapse of Nature'

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The rate of insect extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. Photograph: Verein Krefeld

Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review

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theguardian.com - by Damian Carrington - February 10, 2019

The world’s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review.

More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish within a century.

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abc.net.au - by Eric Campbell - October 14, 2019

For nearly 30 years, a group of entomologists has been collecting and counting bugs from German nature reserves. Their shock findings threaten to change farming practices across Europe.

The Krefeld Entomological Society and its vast collection of insects are based in a rambling old school building in the provincial German city of Krefeld.

It's here, at the end of the last century, that entomologist Dr Martin Sorg and his colleagues began an ambitious project. Their goal: to track, measure and record the number of flying insects found in the countryside around their city.

Three decades later, the scientists released their findings.

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