Quote from a Guardian article about the impact of climate change and agribusiness on flora and fauna in 2015
More disturbingly, there was hardly a wasp to be seen this summer. “Wasps had another poor year, particularly in the south-west,” Oates said. “This represents a wider decline in our insect populations, thought to be a result of confounding weather alongside the possible effects of pesticides used in farming.
“We need to ask what’s happening to our wasps. Many might welcome their dwindling numbers, but the ecological world is a delicate one, and with our two species of common wasps incredibly scarce in many districts for the second consecutive year, we have to ask what impact this is having.”