MOTORISTS in East Anglia are being encouraged to count the "splats" of dead insects on car number plates this summer - to find out if insect numbers are falling. The Royal Society for the Protection ...

A count-up of the number of bugs squashed onto people's car number plates suggests the number of flying insects has declined almost 60% in less than 20 years. The citizen science project on ...

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Conservationists have called on the public to record information on pollinating insects which could otherwise be lost during the coronavirus pandemic. The lockdown will stop scientists from examining ...

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A citizen science project asking people to count squashed bugs on their car number plates suggests flying insects have declined nearly 60% in less than 20 years. The “windscreen phenomenon” is ...

Motorists are being encouraged to download a new app aimed at tracking the UK's insect population by counting 'bug splats' on car number plates. The hope is that the data will allow scientists to ...

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While they are expert honey-makers, few would expect bees to have mastered basic mathematics. However the tiny creatures, with a brain the size of a pinhead, can count and recognise the number zero.

BERLIN (AP) — In a strip of greenery between Berlin’s Natural History Museum and a busy street, bumble bees move swiftly between flowers while a ladybug makes its way along a leaf full of aphids and ...