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The number of plant species in New Zealand has doubled since humans settled there about 800 years ago. Credit: Matthew Lovette/Education Images/UIG/Getty
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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.

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