'I have seen the decline': pesticides linked to falling UK insect numbers

Expert say invertebrates are exposed to range of chemicals, some of which are 10,000 times more toxic than DDTWhat are highly hazardous pesticides and how are they used in the UK?Prof Lynn Dicks has had her hands in the soil for almost three decades - and she has watched it slowly become stripped of invertebrate life."In my life, I have seen the decline," says Dicks, an ecology professor at the University of Cambridge. She knows it from the data: "The data we have of long-term trends in insect abundance over time, that the decline rates are, on average, about 1% a year. Continue reading...