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Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter

posted by mrpg on Friday August 10 2018, @02:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-in-Japan dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

[...] Because the crooning of the crickets has quietened in recent years and may be becoming a thing of the past. There is strong evidence that large numbers of crickets and grasshoppers (known, along with mantises, earwigs and cockroaches as the "Orthoptera") are declining across Europe. A 2017 review of European species showed that over 30% of the 1,000 European species were in decline while only 3% were increasing. As with many insects, we simply don't know what is happening to most of the rest.

The problem is that recent work has suggested that all insect species, including Orthoptera, are declining – the so-called "insect Armageddon."

A 2017 study found that the abundance of flying insects has plunged by 75% over the past 25 years. One member of the study team, Professor Dave Goulson of Sussex University, said at the time: "Insects make up about two-thirds of all life on Earth [but] there has been some kind of horrific decline."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @01:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @01:49AM (#720157)

    When I was a kid, going out for drives with my parents in the summer, you’d come home and your car would just be covered in insects,” Amanda Martin, a government research ecologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, tells Inverse.

    Well shit, how old is Amanda? This is kind of an important point of reference and it's never mentioned in the article.

    TBH, I remember there being more bug splats on my parents' cars in my childhood. But can I be sure? I was a child after all and the whole world seemed a lot more grandiose. I'm in late 30s now. I can believe that Amanda witnessed the same, but then - how old is she? Does she have data to back up her claims?

    Your article is shit.