Raising the alarm over Surrey’s lost insects | Letters

The last 15 years have seen the almost total disappearance of insects and the birds that rely on them for food from reader David Marjot’s gardenWhen I moved here 15 years ago, greenfly, dragonflies, hoverflies, bumblebees, honeybees and butterflies among others were common in the garden. There were swallows and martins in the sky in the summer. We had a colony of swifts in the church tower. The swifts, swallows and martins seem to have disappeared. I saw one swallow over the Thames but ver