What do the bar graphs represent? Losses?
I'd dig deeper on articles like this. Around here we get slammed for environmental destruction yet in the last 5 years we've done more than ever to re-establish habitats. We've just had our farm cluster facilitator survey the estate for all wildlife and found dozens of endangered species that weren't being monitored. Some of those were classified as virtually extinct yet with little effort there they still are.
If you don't measure it you can't manage it. Too many green agenda singing for their own supper at agriculture's expense.
Correct, action not words are needed. Can’t remember when my windscreen was last covered in flies! Must have been 20 years agoI think there has been a big decline in insect numbers - don’t need fancy, expensive studies to tell you what the average summer windscreen or number plate will
As @Brisel says though so much of this is easy fixed - trouble is all the money to make stuff actually happen goes to people who reaserch / talk about problems and not to the people who can actually facilitate change
With the right support and a major cull of the “hangers on” who our industry is swamped with and currently consume most of the money there is massive opportunity for us as farmers to fix a lot of environmental issues
Correct, action not words are needed. Any remember when my windscreen was last covered in flies! Must have been 20 years ago
More research needed...
I normally find there is only one to two weeks a year when you seem to get lots in insects splatting on your windscreen, and it is very weather dependant. Maybe this is due to flight patterns, insect growth stages etc...There was a thread about less bugs on windscreens a while ago. Some of it will be due to better car aerodynamics and some bad springs weatherwise but I think there’s some truth in what you say.
Think how many bugs just one 36 metre SP sprayer can kill in a season.
Many billions probably.
Actually today's cars are so aerodynamic on the whole that most flying bugs apart from the bigger and heavier ones are swept over and around the car without ever touching the body or windscreen.Too many cars on the road killing all the insects compared to years ago and too many houses being built on fields when theres plenty or run down areas in towns that could be re-developed.
To many people walking in the countryside