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Flies with Dr Erica McAlister

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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Climate Change and Insecticides

Land use change is the biggest driver for species lost. Some of these are so specialists in their niches, tut. If we get rid of that, they're gone. There's an endemic fly in scotland, only found in the cool lings of scotland. And this was threatened by a golf course. So if that golf course had been built, that species would have been wiped out. Butwhatlandes chase? Climate change, increased urbanization, insecticides, a light pollution,. just layer upon layer upon layer, the insects ar lit. We'll finding it harder and harder to fight here.

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