Australian Geographic

Global bugpocalypse

F YOU’VE BEEN driving in regional Australia for many years, think about whether the number of insects getting squashed on your windscreen has declined. Are you needing to wash it less frequently? A University of Sydney researcher who’s published a study on worrying global declines of insects says he’s noticed this himself over the many years he’s been surveying insects in outback Australia.

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