A new survey recording ‘bug splats’ has reported a “staggering” drop in the number of insects squashed on cars. The findings lay clear the worrying trend of a decline in flying insects. In two decades ...

A survey by the Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife, with the help of citizen scientists, recorded a 63% drop in insect impacts, or bug splats, on car number plates between 2021 and 2024. Dr. Lawrence ...

The number of flying insects counted on vehicle licence plates in Northern Ireland has more than halved in the past five years, new figures suggest. The annual Bugs Matter "splat survey", a citizen ...

A UK-wide decline in bug splats recorded on car number plates indicates an "alarming" fall in the number of flying insects, UK scientists said in a survey published Wednesday. The 2024 Bugs Matter ...

Conservation research data has revealed a "troubling" fall in insect numbers in Kent. The annual Bugs Matter survey recorded an 89% decline across the county over 20 years in the number of dead ...

For many of us growing up in the 1980s in the south of England, summer holidays meant piling in the car and making the long road trip down to Devon or Cornwall for a week or two at the seaside. Aside ...