**Insects are disappearing at an alarming rate worldwide 🦋🌍. Insect populations had declined by 75% in less than three decades 📉. The most cited driver for insect decline was agricultural intensification 🚜, via issues like land-use change and insecticides, with 500+ other interconnected drivers 🔗.**
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Insects are disappearing due to agriculture – and many other drivers, new research reveals
Insects are disappearing at an alarming rate worldwide, but why? Agricultural intensification tops the list of proposed reasons, but there are many other, interconnected drivers that have an impact, according to new research led by Binghamton.
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New findings add to mounting evidence of global insect population decline 🐜📉, with some regions reporting drops exceeding 75% in recent decades. Chlorothalonil, one of world's most extensively used fungicides, severely impacts insect reproduction and survival 🐞💔, even at lowest levels detected on food.
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Common farm chemical threatens insect survival
Common farm chemical threatens insect survival
Macquarie University research reveals a widely-used fungicide causes reproductive damage in beneficial insects. The study found chlorothaloni
Macquarie University research reveals a widely-used fungicide causes reproductive damage in beneficial insects. The study found chlorothaloni
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Even untouched ecosystems are losing insects at alarming rates 🦗📉, a new study shows. In a Colorado subalpine meadow with 38 years of weather data and little human disturbance, researchers found insect abundance dropping 6.6% annually—an alarming 72.4% decline in just 20 years.
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Even untouched ecosystems are losing insects at alarming rates, new study finds
A new study shows climate change tied to insect population collapse in “safe” and untouched ecosystems.
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A 60%+ drop in insect abundance since the 1970s has left Canada's tree swallows smaller and producing fewer young, a new study finds. While climate change causes birds to miss the peak insect emergence by 3 days/decade, the plummeting prey volume means the reward for nesting early has vanished.
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Crashing insect populations have resulted in smaller tree swallows that reproduce less
The study shows that climate impacts cannot be fully understood without considering biodiversity loss.
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