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Insects are vital to vertebrate life, researchers say
Original: Insects are essential to vertebrate life—as food, shelter and medicine
A new report argues that insects are essential to vertebrate life, serving not only as food but also as shelter and medicine. The piece highlights how vertebrates across ecosystems depend on insect populations, warning that insect decline could ripple through food chains and affect the survival of birds, fish, mammals and other animals reliant on them.
Why now: Growing concern over insect population declines is drawing attention to their ecological role.
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