1.   The critical breeding season coincides with peak insect population.

2.   Insect populations fluctuate wildly from year to year.

3.   SNH recommends leaving wind-blown trees in woodlands, where possible, to encourage insect populations.

4.   Better foliage growth, in turn, aided the recovery of insect populations, and more insects meant more larvae for the birds to feed their young.

5.   Entomologists hope to use it to re-establish rare and endangered insect populations wiped out elsewhere in New England years ago.

6.   High temperatures and a sudden surge in humidity have the local insect population in pest heaven, following a spring practically designed for their procreation.

7.   In fact, entomologists hope to use it to re-establish rare and endangered insect populations wiped out elsewhere in New England years ago.

8.   More immediately, Parrish said, kestrels are really good at keeping insect populations under control.

9.   So hold down the insect population.

10.   Some, like mosquitofish, control nuisance insect populations.