Tag: insect decline

• Tuesday, February 12th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  “Good” insects declining dramatically while houseflies and cockroaches’ boom

  

  Scientific review of insect numbers suggests that 40% of species are undergoing “dramatic rates of decline” around the world. The study says that bees, ants and beetles are disappearing eight times faster than mammals, birds or reptiles. But researchers say that some species, such as houseflies and cockroaches, are likely to boom.