Motorists are being encouraged to download a new app aimed at tracking the UK's insect population by counting 'bug splats' on car number plates. The hope is that the data will allow scientists to ...

A project asking people to count squashed bugs on their car number plates suggests flying insects have declined by nearly two-thirds in less than 20 years. The citizen science Bugs Matter survey, led ...

MOTORISTS in East Anglia are being encouraged to count the "splats" of dead insects on car number plates this summer - to find out if insect numbers are falling. The Royal Society for the Protection ...

A count-up of the number of bugs squashed onto people's car number plates suggests the number of flying insects has declined almost 60% in less than 20 years. The citizen science project on ...

Populations of flying insects in the UK are rapidly collapsing, with numbers falling by 64 per cent across the country since 2004, new research has found. Conservation charities are now calling for ...

A project asking people to count squashed bugs on their car number plates suggests flying insects have declined. The citizen science survey led by Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife showed a 78 per cent ...