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Shared Planet - Insects and Lights

Artificial lighting is ubiquitous in the developed world - but the effects of night time illumination on wildlife are not yet fully understood. While we know that artificial of...

Artificial lighting is ubiquitous in the developed world - but the effects of night time illumination on wildlife are not yet fully understood.
While we know that artificial light changes the behaviour of some animals we're still a long way from knowing whether those changes can damage wildlife populations.
Monty Don finds out what we do know with particular regard to an important but often overlooked group of animals - insects.

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