A Seventy-five percent Decline in Bugs?

This story of noticeably fewer bugs on the car windshield was something I mentioned at least five years ago in one of my reports from personal observation following a visit driving across the state of Nebraska to Eastern Nebraska farm country. When I was a child, there were so many! We are well on our way to sterilizing farm country. But, not just in the U.S.

From PLOS ONE:
More than 75 percent

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