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New ‘Detective Work’ on Butterfly Declines Reveals a Prime Suspect (www.nytimes.com)

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The latest insight comes from a study on butterflies in the Midwest, published on Thursday in the journal PLOS ONE. Its results don’t discount the serious effects of climate change and habitat loss on butterflies and other insects, but they indicate that agricultural insecticides exerted the biggest impact on the size and diversity of butterfly populations in the Midwest during the study period, 1998 to 2014.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Butterfly Detective is an incredibly cool job to have, although the findings here are admittedly bad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd watch a papillon noire.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

She had antennae like black snakes, and right away I knew she was trouble.