The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World.

Milman summarizes in a highly readable style hundreds of recently published scientific papers, most pointing to the loss or reduction of insect populations around the world as a consequence of human activities. Chemical pesticides, introduced species, light pollution, and climate change follow as part of the array of insults our actions have inflicted on the insects of the world. [Extracted from the article]