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    Vee (veroniqueb99@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jun-2025 09:01:42 JST Vee Vee

    What's been lost...
    Entomologists from Krefeld, Germany, collected flying insects for two weeks in August 1994 (left) and—at the same site, with an identical trap— in August 2016 (right). Similar data from 63 German protected areas overall gave a shocking result: a 76 percent drop in insect biomass between 1989 and 2016.
    It has worsened significantly in the past 9 years.
    Photographed at Entomological Society of Krefeld

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      Ede (saitenschuft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jun-2025 16:26:47 JST Ede Ede
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      @VeroniqueB99
      Diesel Dieter's opinion: Finally, fewer insects on my car's windshield!🤡

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      horstworst (horstworst@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jun-2025 16:29:32 JST horstworst horstworst
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      @VeroniqueB99
      It's called "Krefelder Studie" - here is a mention from 2022 (in german)
      https://www.riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/insektensterben-krefelder-studie-5-jahre-faq-fragen-antworten-biodiversitaet
      @riffreporter

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        Die wichtigsten Antworten rund um die „Krefelder Studie“
        from Joachim Budde
        Die „Krefelder Studie“ belegte riesige Verluste bei den Insekten. Lesen Sie, was sich seitdem geändert hat.
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      MaryMarasKittenBakery (marymaraskittenbakery@troet.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jun-2025 16:29:45 JST MaryMarasKittenBakery MaryMarasKittenBakery
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      @renardboy @VeroniqueB99
      It certainly is one reason for the decline, yes. There are several, pesticides and loss of habitats are others

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      an actual bus (renardboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jun-2025 16:29:46 JST an actual bus an actual bus
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      @VeroniqueB99 maybe the trap from 1989 caught all the insects

      Seriously though, I can think of many causes for this but I'll share one that has not yet been mentioned here, artificial light. There's so much of it and flying insects b-line for it whenever they see it, that *has* to mess with their life cycle over time.

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      ☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻 (peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jun-2025 16:30:05 JST ☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻 ☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻
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      @VeroniqueB99 “for two hours each evening, the site got power and a 25-watt bulb flickered on above the porch. Out of the forest darkness, a tornado of #insects would flock to its glow, spinning and dancing before the light. Lit up, the side of the house would be “absolutely plastered with moths – tens of thousands of them”, #DanielJanzen says. [The walls would be] absolutely plastered with moths – tens of thousands of them… Inspired, he decided to erect a sheet for a light trap with a camera – a common way to document flying insect numbers and diversity. In that first photograph, taken in 1978, the lit-up sheet is so thickly studded with moths that in places the fabric is barely visible, transformed into what looks like densely patterned, crawling wallpaper.

      Scientists identified an astonishing 3,000 species from that light trap, and the trajectory of Janzen’s career was transformed, from the study of seeds to a lifetime specialising in the forest’s barely documented populations of caterpillars and moths.

      Now 86, Janzen still works in the same research hut in the #Guanacaste (Costa Rica) conservation area, alongside his longtime collaborator, spouse and fellow ecologist, #WinnieHallwachs. But in the forest that surrounds them, something has changed. Trees that once crawled with insects lie uncannily still.”

      #ClimateEmergency <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe>

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        ‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
        from https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tess-mcclure
        A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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      feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 06:02:10 JST feld feld
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      @VeroniqueB99 we've lost 75% in like 3 decades, it's crazy

      but hey, no more bug splatter on my windshield
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