#splatometer — Public Fediverse posts

I was talking to some bikers in a pub (as you do) and they suggested that #ecology should recruit bikers to collect data more often. In the same manner as there was the #Splatometer experiment recently in Kent looking at insects on car number plates, they think that someone should develop a way to quantify insects on motorcycle visors & do a study. (One commented that the insect visor splats increased enormously once he crossed into Scotland!) #InsectDeclines #Entomology #InsectMonitoring

@gdeihl @breadandcircuses You're right! Researchers are actually counting bug splats to document this decline! #Splatometer #insectapocalypse
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-splatometer-tests-reveal-huge-decline-number-insects

Car #splatometer tests reveal huge decline in number of #insects | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-splatometer-tests-reveal-huge-decline-number-insects

#Science #Biology #Zoology #Entomology #Wildlife #Conservation #Ecology #Denmark