From the London Mail [caution, tabloid]:
The world’s insects are falling silent at an alarming rate, a development a critical care physician has warned may signal a looming crisis for humanity. Dr Joseph Varon, a Houston-based doctor, issued the stark warning this week, saying insects, including beetles, butterflies, moths, flies, mosquitoes and bees, are disappearing at dramatic rates, a ‘critical red flag for ecological instability.’
Varon likened the growing quiet to a dangerous moment in medicine, when a patient suddenly goes silent just before a system failure.