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Are all the bugs dying?
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My butterfly bushes and mountain mint bloomed with little to no visitors this year. I've heard 1 cicada this year. I've only seen a few June bugs, and I've been camping and hiking several times with no bugspray needed. Is this just a bad year and it will bounce back? If not, how fast is this going to get worse? Are all the birds going to start disappearing next year?
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Sorry, but have you heard of the rule of 70? 9% to 11% looks a lot more scary if you do some math.
70/9, the low estimate, is a halving time of 7.7 decades, 77 years, while the high estimate is 70/11, a halving time of 63 years. The study starts with data from 1960, which as it happens is 64 years ago.
This indicates a 50% decline.