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Causes for Concern: Confounding Threats to Moths

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Many factors influence habitat availability and suitability for moths, and the major categories of additional threats are noted here. Most flow directly from anthropogenic activities. Some engender strong conflicts of interest—for example use of pesticides for crop or other commodity protection and introductions of alien species (whether insects as biological control agents or plants as agricultural or forestry crops or as ornamentals)—and are recurrent concerns in insect conservation from possible non-target effects. Each may constitute an independent threat to native insects, or combine with other threats in other ways, often poorly defined.

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New, T.R. (2023). Causes for Concern: Confounding Threats to Moths. In: The Other Lepidoptera: Moth Conservation in Australia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32103-0_5

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