[aerohead]

Originally Posted by RedDevil

Coincidentally I read the latest New Scientist today, which ran an article about the "insect armageddon", the big loss of insect species and density in Europe over the last two decades.

We used to have bumblebees nest in an old bird house. Year after year they kept coming back, but last year the few worker bees all went disoriented, crawling and circling aimlessly over the ground. Something got them, a toxin or a disease.
The nest died and was not used again.

BBC or DW Television mentioned that bird populations are down too.Pesticides was mentioned as one possible contributing factor.As goes the insects,so goes the birds?