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InuredWhen we see something like this TV news item mixed with a whole bunch of other news-bites over an hour or half an hour's programme, I think many of us take little notice. It's just another listing in a daily catalogue soothed into nothingness by our comfortable armchairs. Look through the windscreenSo – how to make the insect extinction problem real? Ask, "How many bugs splatter my car windscreen as I drive at night?" Invariably, these days, very few. But people who can think back 20 years or more can well remember a windshield smeared with squashed insects, needing the washers to retrieve clear visibility. New scientific termEntomologists call it 'the windshield phenomenon.' "If you talk to people, they have a gut feeling. They remember how insects used to smash on your windscreen," says Wolfgang Wägele, director of the Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity in Bonn, Germany. Today, drivers spend less time scraping and scrubbing. "I'm a very data-driven person," says Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in Portland, Oregon. "But it is a visceral reaction when you realize you don't see that mess anymore." (Science, May 2017 see below) What to do about insect depletion and extinction
John McInnes Friday 21 February 2020 References: Please click anywhere on the selected text TV1 22 January 2020 pesticides report Science: Where have all the insects gone, 10 May 2017 by Gretchen Vogel Scientists warn about insect extinction: Biological Conservation Volume 242, February 2020, 108426 Note: To find other posts on this blog in which I've discussed insects, please use the search bar. ##########
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