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Michigan State University: Insect Bites, Warmer Climate Means Double-Trouble for Plants
January 21, 2020
EAST LANSING, Michigan, Jan. 21 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- Michigan State University issued the following news release:

Recent models are telling us that, as our climate warms up, herbivores and pests will cause increased damage to agricultural crops. One study predicted that crop yield lost to insects increases 10 to 25 percent for every 1 degree Celsius increase.

Michigan State University scientists think that these models are incomplete and that we may be underestimatin . . .

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