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Pretty graphics but .. how do they write such a long piece without mentioning elevated Carbon Dioxide? eC02. Certainly broad-spectrum, insecticides have a role in decline but there's also the background of eCO2 which gets no coverage here, just warming effects.

From an insect's pov eCO2 changes everything; how nutritions leaves are - also how unpalatable they are², increases in water acidity, changes to their habitat from increased rainfall, and leads to changes in insect physiology³

Jactel et al have an outline Responses of forest insect pests to climate change: not so simple https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221457451... but this is still an area of many unknowns, even less known than the effect of eCO2 on plants - which is deleteriuous across the board.

2 -Johnson et al 2023 eCO2 suppresses silicon accumulation and exacerbates endophyte reductions in plant phosphorus. Article is on eCO2-driven interlinked changes in pasture grasses and how productivity and insects respond to this.

3 - Liu et al 2023 Elevated CO2 leads to thick-skinned thrips by altering trehalose and chitin metabolisms. This would have serious implications for pest control. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10340-023-01697-3