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Global warming will make insects hungrier, eating up key crops: study

by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) — Researchers have found a new way that global warming is bad for the planet: more hungry bugs. Rising temperatures will stimulate insects’ appetites — and make some prone to reproducing more quickly — spelling danger for key staples like wheat, corn and rice which feed billions of people, researchers said Thursday. And since these three crops account for 42 percent of the calories people […]