Is the insect apocalypse real?

This week, we hit the road in rural Texas for our weirdest experiment yet. Were collecting all the bugs that splat on our cars windshield. Its a silly project that hints at a very serious issue: the decline of insect populations around the world. Its mysterious and disturbing...but might be different from what youve been hearing on the news.


Here are links to the papers we mentioned in this video:
PLOS ONE http://bit.ly/2xCheuL
ScienceDirect http://bit.ly/2xChhqr
NY Times https://nyti.ms/30qZ3o1
The Atlantic http://bit.ly/2XOjNsg
American Scientist http://bit.ly/2LFV2bj

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