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Crop Protection
New report sheds light on agriculture’s relationship to insect populations
The past few years have seen an increase in misleading media stories blaming modern agriculture for a reported “insect apocalypse”. Now, a wide-ranging study* by German researchers is shedding light on these “insect apocalypse” claims. Researchers at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig University and Martin Luther University have analysed almost a century of data from 166 long-term insect surveys from across the globe. Their key findings show terrestrial insects are declining much…
