Combined pressures of global heating and farming can halve insect populations in some places - study.
Plummeting populations of insects around the world - a so-called "insect apocalypse" - have caused widespread concern.
In the latest study, the researchers pulled together data on the range and number of nearly 20,000 insect species, including bees, ants, butterflies, grasshoppers and dragonflies, at about 6,000 different locations.
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