In een interview met Engelse ondertiteling zet de toxicoloog Henk Tennekes zijn denkbeelden over de ontsporing van de toxicologie uiteen. Hij is van mening dat met name de cumulatieve toxiciteit van bestrijdingsmiddelen in het milieu bij de toelatingsprocedure onvoldoende wordt onderzocht en verklaart daarmee de massale insectensterfte van de laatste jaren.
We compared the current (2012–2017) abundances of food plants of different groups of flower‐visiting insects to that of 1900–1930 in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Comparisons were done separately for different vegetation types, flowering months, and groups of diurnal flower‐visiting insects, such as bees, bumblebees, wasps, butterflies, hoverflies, flies, and beetles. We found a general decrease in food plant abundance for all groups of flower‐visiting insects and in all vegetation types except ruderal areas.
Die rund 48.400 bekannten Spinnenarten gehören weltweit zu den wichtigsten insektenfressenden Tieren auf der Erde. Eine Gruppe davon, die Kreuzspinnen, bauen auffällige Radnetze. Als die vermutlich bekannteste und bisher sehr verbreitete Kreuzspinnenart in Europa gilt die Gartenkreuzspinne Araneus diadematus. Ihre bevorzugten Lebensräume sind neben Hausgärten Parks, Friedhöfe, Hecken, Waldränder und Waldlichtungen.
Swifts are slightly larger than swallows and have an all dark plumage with only a short forked tail. They feed on flying insects and spend most of their life in the air (including when they sleep), usually coming down to earth to breed. They are fast fliers often chasing one another over buildings when they give a screeching call.
Swifts arrive back in Argyll in early May and breed in some of the towns, villages and other buildings in Argyll. They spend around three months in Argyll, departing in early-mid August, to their wintering grounds in Africa.
The number of insect species and insect abundances decreased severely during the past decades over major parts of Central Europe. Previous studies documented declines of species richness, abundances, shifts in species composition, and decreasing biomass of flying insects. In this study, we present a standardized approach to quantitatively and qualitatively assess insect diversity, biomass, and the abundance of taxa, in parallel.
Little is really known about the total numbers of insect species our planet holds and it is estimated that only between 10 and 20 per cent of insect and invertebrate species have been classified and named. We may well ask ourselves as to why the world’s insect population is declining with some species facing extinction?
La Selva is een strook intacte Costa Ricaanse jungle die beschermd is tegen ontwikkeling, specifiek voor gebruik door wetenschappelijke onderzoekers en docenten. La Selva wordt erkend als een van de meest productieve veldstations ter wereld voor tropisch onderzoek en publicaties. Het is een ongelooflijk waardevolle bron voor wetenschappers, en hoewel beschermd, is het niet ondoordringbaar.
La Selva is a swath of intact Costa Rican jungle protected from development specifically for use by science researchers and educators. Hints of research projects can be seen along the over 30 miles of pathways that weave through the jungle – a tree tagged with orange tape, a 3-square-foot plot of jungle marked off with string.
Scientists have uncovered alarming declines in caterpillar diversity and their parasites across 22 years of monitoring in a protected forest in Costa Rica. Scientists studied the Lepidoptera order of moths and butterflies by collecting all externally feeding caterpillars — those found on leaves and not the inner tissue of a plant. They also collected the parasites that live off their caterpillar hosts, known as parasitoids, including wasps (order Hymenoptera) and flies (order Diptera).
Daran, dass unsere Insekten und damit auch unsere Vögel weniger werden, sollen hauptsächlich Pflanzenschutzmittel schuld sein. Jetzt haben Forscher aus Tokio bestätigt, dass sich Neonicotinoide auch im Wasser und damit auf Fische auswirken. Ein Team um Masumi Yamamuro von der Universität Tokio hat den japanischen Shinji-See über Jahrzehnte beobachtet. Der siebtgrößte See Japans liegt in der Präfektur Shimane, an seinen Ufern befinden sich Reisfelder.