Where have all the wild things gone?
Over the past few years, the global media have been reporting on a so-called ‘Insectageddon’ and what a bugless world could mean. They cite the growing body of evidence that invertebrates, and particularly the insects, are in big trouble.
This can make for scary reading, which can make some people feel powerless. But it is having an impact on research budgets and government action which were much needed, and at least the media are also starting to explain to the public, more helpfully, why this decline will be a problem: telling the story of bugs in our lives and describing what it will mean if we lose them. That we will lose many of the foods that we take for granted, including coffee, chocolate and fruits. That these invertebrates are the butterflies
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