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Land-dwelling insects drop in population but freshwater bugs doing better

The world's ants, bees, butterflies, grasshoppers, fireflies and other land-dwelling insects have been suffering population drops of about 9% per decade but freshwater bugs such as dragonflies and mosquitoes have been rallying, researchers said on Thursday. [Source]

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Origin: reuters.com

Category: scienceNews

Topics: freshwater, population, insects, researchers, rallying, mosquitoes, dragonflies, decade, drops, suffering, land-dwelling, fireflies, grasshoppers, butterflies, world's, better, doing, Land-dwelling

Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/Li2AucPEWgA/land-dwelling-insects-drop-in-population-but-freshwater-bugs-doing-better-idUSKCN2253FT

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