And pollution can also make it harder for insects to learn. In a 2019 study, Girling and colleagues first trained honeybees to recognise an odour using the sugar water-proboscis method. Then they ...

In the summers of 2018 and 2019, the ecologist James Ryalls and his colleagues would go out to a field near Reading, in southern England, to stare at the insects buzzing around black-mustard ...

Ground-level ozone, a product of pollution from cars, degrades insect pheromones, and this can result in mismatched mating and sterile offspring By Chen Ly 11 April 2024 ...

They found that PM accumulation on their antennae increased with the levels of ambient air pollution recorded at the place and time of the flies’ collection. Next, they exposed lab houseflies for 12 ...

The scale of this pollution is alarming : ... Plastic Pollution: What If Insects Were the Solution? Story by Samir Sebti • 1d. E ach year, humanity produces a staggering 430 million tons of plastic.

The study focused on how air pollution impacts various aspects of insect behaviour and biology, including feeding, growth, survival, reproduction, and ability to locate food sources.

Noise pollution puts whole ecosystems in danger, and rapid urbanization will likely make the problem worse. According to a United Nations report, 68 percent of the world’s population will live ...

Contaminated air is not only bad for us, it can also disrupt bees' highly attuned senses for finding flowers. In the summers of 2018 and 2019, ecologist James Ryalls and his colleagues would go ...