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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: 2) by ilPapa on Saturday August 11 2018, @03:05AM (1 child)

    by ilPapa (2366) on Saturday August 11 2018, @03:05AM (#720178) Journal

    I spent last summer in Houston (for my sins) and I can tell you, them fuckers is loud. I was right in the city, near downtown and Rice University, and even with all the windows shut tight and the air conditioner on blast (you have to, because Houston is hell) I could still hear those noisy bastard. There are bugs down there that I've never seen anywhere else, and one day I was waking up to a taco truck and a friggin' cloud of bees rolled through the parking lot and everyone had to go running. All the water in Houston is surface water, with all the bayous and such, so it's basically like the Amazon except with MAGA hats and firearms.

    Fuck crickets anyway.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @03:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @03:48AM (#720192)

    Your description of Houston sounds like a great place to live. Much better than where I'm at now. I think I'll move there!!

    Resident of New Orleans, LA