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What's something common from your childhood that you never see anymore? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

You definitely see a lot less of them. Some of that was intentional, at least in the US, as the "love bug" problem was supposedly something that we caused and the solution was to spread sterilized bugs that would mingle with the regular bugs and prevent the population booms. No idea how well it worked, it could just be that our overuse of pesticides did the real work.

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