Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature', page-81

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    Good article, i live between Cairns and the Tablelands and as a semi retired Mango farmer do take a very active interest in the environment as do many others. The Daintree and Cape Tribulation are relatively free from agriculture and sprays, the summer evenings were always a seething mass of insects around any lights and driving over the Daintree River into Cape Tribulation the sight of hundreds of Ulysses Butterflies were a common occurrence as well as many other varieties. The Ulysses has now all but disappeared and the millions of bugs at night around lights have at least halved perceptibly in the last 4 years.
 
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