Citizen science survey finds decline in insect 'splats per mile' was 65% England, 55% in Wales and lowest in Scotland, at 27.9%
finding climate change and agriculture have almost halved insect numbers in the worst-hit regions. But most monitoring of flying insects is based on their distribution, rather than their abundance.To get a better handle on how flying insect populations are changing, Buglife enlisted drivers to wipe their number plate clean before a journey and then use a sampling grid to count the number of dead insects when they reached their destination and upload the results to an app.
This measure fell from 0.238 per mile on average in 2004 to 0.104 per mile in 2021, or a 58.5 per cent drop UK-wide. “This confirms what we already knew – that insect populations are in free fall.
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