The mystery of the vanishing Christmas beetles
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Are Christmas Beetles Disappearing?
Christmas beetles seem to be vanishing in Australia. What is the cause and how does it relate to climate change? i think what i am seeing is just the effect of prolonged drought, because we are now getting winter after winter with no rain. And then it needs to be soft enough the following year for those eggs to well, their little baby insects to burrow out to the surface.
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