“‘Our mistreatment of the planet has been recognizably bad for elephants and coral reefs, but it seems likely that it has also been just as bad for flies, moths, beetles.’ This is, to put it mildly, a huge problem.” From Ed Yong in The Atlantic: Insects Are In Serious Trouble. “Any truck driver in the developed world will tell you that they used to squash a lot of insects on the windscreen. Now the windscreens stay clean.”