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New ‘Detective Work’ on Butterfly Declines Reveals a Prime Suspect (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Blackbeard to c/science

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The latest insight comes from a study on butterflies in the Midwest, published on Thursday in the journal PLOS ONE. Its results don’t discount the serious effects of climate change and habitat loss on butterflies and other insects, but they indicate that agricultural insecticides exerted the biggest impact on the size and diversity of butterfly populations in the Midwest during the study period, 1998 to 2014.

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[–] Blackbeard 35 points 4 months ago

Lol, yep. Oh you spray lots of stuff that's designed to kill bugs? I think it might be killing lots of bugs!