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Re:Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects by esarbe on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:29AM (#24080050)
This does not seem to have any influence. Even with 'oldtimers' you get less squashed bugs nowadays.

Even accounting for this, there is sufficient evidence for a significant drop in insect populations. While it's hard to have exact numbers, the estimations in decline of population range from 70% to 90% since the 1980.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.5236

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Re:Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects by hef19898 on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:43AM (#24080149)
I remember that a couple of years ago, there was a study that was based on squashed bugs on licence plates. Basically they used the standardized surface of the plates to measure the bugs in a certain area. No idea what came from it.
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