Latest research indicates that over three quarters of our insect populations have died out over just twenty seven years.
This is horrendous.
Insects form the basis of most food webs. Without them amphibia, reptiles and many mammals and birds will die out. Without the smaller creatures the bigger creatures are at risk.
What would a summer be without swallows, swifts and housemartins soaring and diving through the air, without hedgehogs snuffling in the garden, without frogspawn in the ponds and streams?
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809