Why scientists are so worried at the huge, sudden loss of insects https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/10/17/17985282/insects-puerto-rico-biodiversity-mass-extinction-pnas … That or the insects evolved to not get caught in traps.
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Or something else caused them to evolve. I mean they had like 40 years. Carl Sagan demonstrated that is more than enough time for small selection effects to matter.
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So a whole bunch of different kinds of insects happened to evolve in ways that coincidentally made them less likely to get caught in scientists' traps, over the same 40 year period.



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I’m an Economist not an evolutionary biologist! Maybe they just pissed off somewhere better where the rent was cheaper.
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Now there's a hypothesis I buy!

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It is either that or some sort of local tax distortion.
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