It's that time of year when we are chasing flies around the house in a futile attempt to either swat them or hasten their exit through a window or door. With warmer weather, flying insects find it much easier to get into our homes.
But this year people are being asked not to kill them, because their numbers are declining. A new study has revealed that the UK's flying insect population has dropped by 60% in the past 20 years, reports YorkshireLive.
With that in mind, people are being urged to show flies, wasps, bees and the like the door rather than the underside of a rolled-up newspaper. Charities Buglife and the Kent Wildlife Trust discovered the decline after asking people to count the number of insects splattered across the fronts of their cars.
