@wikipedia Did you know that Christmas Beetle numbers have been undergoing rapid decline? So rapid that it has caught scientific bodies on the back foot. Here are three respected research bodies acknowledging that they don't have solid data but that the anecdotal reports are widespread, alarming, and have triggered urgent research. https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/christmas-beetles/ https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2023/December/Christmas-beetles https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/schools/school-of-life-and-environmental-sciences/research/christmas-beetle-population-project.html