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My daily surveys suggest British earwigs are declining drastically

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par John Murray, Senior Research Fellow, School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, The Open University

Every morning for the past 32 years, I have been counting earwigs. Here at Marshalls Heath, a small nature reserve in Hertfordshire, the only site where these nocturnal insects have been so systematically monitored for so long, the number of common earwigs has declined dramatically.

Using a light trap (equipment that entices nocturnal flying insects towards an artificial light and into a box until they can be counted and released in the…

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