Fiji ant study provides new evidence of insects’ decline on remote islands
via theguardian.com
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DNA analysis of endemic specimens in museums finds 79% of ant populations in Pacific archipelago are shrinking Island-dwelling insects have not been spared the ravages of humanity that have pushed so many of their invertebrate kin into freefall around the world, new research on Fijian ant populations has found. Hundreds of thousands of insect species […]