Where have all the insects gone? | Charlie Hart

Britain’s insect population is struggling - gone are the days when your windscreen was full of bugs at the end of a car journey I miss seeing the back end of a bug.This summer I sensed a disturbance of some sort. There were hardly any ladybirds, almost no butterflies (only the odd cabbage white) and barely a wasp. Very, very odd. I noticed early on that the orchard would crop moderately (as opposed to well); I put this down to the slow spring and accompanying lack of pollinators. But I won