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U.S. Butterflies Are Disappearing at Drastic Rates, With One in Five Gone Since 2000
A team of more than 30 researchers analyzed 12.6 million butterfly sightings across 76,000 population surveys. They found ...
America’s butterflies are disappearing at a ‘catastrophic’ rate
US butterfly populations are declining because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the ...
See How Butterflies Are Surviving, or Not, Near You
Little-understood and vastly underappreciated, insects play an outsize role in supporting life on earth. They pollinate ...
Butterflies in the U.S. are disappearing at a ‘catastrophic’ rate
The number of butterflies in the contiguous United States declined by 22 percent this century, a collapse with potentially ...