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  1. List of paraphrases for "insects":

    insect, bugs, beetles, pests, entomology, bug

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#2043bug
#4056bugs
#9918insects
#10696insect
#16876pests
#25558beetles
#26317entomology

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  1. Martha Desmond:

    This is devastating. Climate charge is playing a role in this. we lost 3 billion birds in the US since 1970 and we've also seen a tremendous decline in insects, so an event like this is terrifying to these populations and it's devastating to see.

  2. Albert Einstein:

    Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

  3. Chris Connolly:

    Small changes in the pesticide structure or its target site in insects are likely to be critical to risk assessment, each pesticide/insect combination needs to be considered independently.

  4. Scott Stephens:

    I think we’ve got one to two decades, if we don’t do this in earnest, we’re frankly just going to be watching the forest change right in front of our eyes from fire, climate change, drought, insects, things of that nature.

  5. Kamran Safi:

    Possibly the food resources (insects) are distributed over vast areas but in clumped heaps.


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