Experts warn not to kill wasps or flies when they fly in your house this summer

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Scots have been urged not kill any bees, flies or wasps when they enter our homes this summer. A new study found that the population of flying insects has declined as much as 60 per cent across the UK in the last two decades.

Conservation charities Buglife and the Kent Wildlife Trust tasked members of the public to take note of the number of insects splattered against their registration place.When compared with a similar study carried out in 2004, insect counts were down by 65 per cent in England and a 28 per cent fall in Scotland.Paul Hadaway, the director of conservation at Kent Wildlife Trust, has called the decline “alarming”.

He told Yorkshire Live : “The results from the Bugs Matter study should shock and concern us all. We are seeing declines in insects, which reflect the enormous threats and loss of wildlife more broadly across the country. "These declines are happening at an alarming rate and without concerted action to address them we face a stark future.

Insects and pollinators are fundamental to the health of our environment and rural economies."'We need action for all our wildlife now by creating more and bigger areas of habitats, providing corridors through the landscape for wildlife and allowing nature space to recover."People online have in the past shared their techniques for killing flying bugs at home including traps, electric rackets and sticky fly paper, or sicking their cats on them.But in the face of such startling figures, the best bet might be to shoo flies and wasps back outside rather than kill them.The Natural History Museum goes on to paint quite the grim picture of how badly our world will be affected if we carry on seeing insect numbers dropping: "The decline in insects affects all the