Sentence examples for insects decline from inspiring English sources

And there is no shortage of theories to explain the insects' decline.

In bumble bees, exposure to one such chemical leads to a dramatic loss of queens and could help explain the insects' decline.

The four-year drought is thought to be contributing to the insects' decline, according to Assemblywoman Patty Lopez (D-San Fernando), the bill's author.

The study, which tracked flying insects collected in nature preserves across Germany, found that in just 25 years, the total biomass of these insects declined by an astonishing 76percentt.

How large is the true insect decline?

The UK's swift population has tumbled because of a combination of insect decline and a loss of nesting habitat.

In the recent past, few have cared about insect decline, because people in general don't care about insects, but the numbers are becoming too big to ignore.

"Global-scale insecticide usage is, to me, a more convincing cause for a widespread, across-the-board insect decline," Dr. Stager said.

The EAC report noted that the value of the pollination lost because of insect declines could run to hundreds of millions of pounds and that "neonicotinoid pesticides are not fundamental to the general economic or agricultural viability of UK farming".

But splatometers could nonetheless help contribute to the bigger picture of insect declines.

In particular, over a 100 species of lichens, fungi and insects would decline or become extinct if the ash was gone.