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The case of the disappearing insect. Boffin tells Reg: We don't know why... but we must act

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Re: I'd like to see more

"in any case professional entymologists will have accounted for any natural cycles"

Not necessarily. Jim Steele gives examples of bad research in his excellent

Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism. One of the cases he describes is a conservation effort in the UK. To save the insects, farmers were forbidden to graze sheep where they bred. The longer grass lowered the soil temperature below that the breeding cycle of the insects needed to survive.

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