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BUZZ KILL: Insect decline worse than predicted

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Many remember driving through local roads 50, 80 and more years ago, and having their windscreen covered in insects.

It doesn’t happen anywhere near that extent these days, which is a common anecdote Macclesfield-based ecologist Darcy Whittaker hears.

“You hear those stories from people a lot older than me – you’d drive around and get bugs all over your windscreen and nowadays, it doesnâ...


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