August 13, 2021
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In June 2018, 180 cars fanned out across Denmark and parts of Germany on a grand insect hunt. Armed with white, funnel-shaped nets mounted on their car roofs, enthusiastic citizen naturalists roamed through cities, farmlands, grasslands, wetlands and forests...The researchers dried and weighed the collections to determine the total mass of flying insects in each landscape. They expected some bad news.
