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by empath75 2677 days ago
Over what time scale? Over the history of the planet, the norm is probably close to zero as they only evolved 400 million years ago.

I don't think we particularly care about that, though. What we care about is what the death of insects means in terms of the ability of plants to continue to propagate since we like need to eat them to survive.