The danger when mosquitoes today carry plastic particles in the body

According to Biology Letters, when monitoring the pathway of glowing plastic particles in the ecosystem, British scientists concluded that it is mosquitoes that spread tiny plastic particles from ponds to systems. Other ecology accumulates in the larvae stage.

Later, these plastic particles are found in birds as well as other animals that eat insects and plastic beads can be a major danger to them.

Mosquito mosquito Culex - Photo: James Gathany / CDC.

Mosquito larvae live in ponds and eat tiny food particles that are readily available in the water. At the same time, they do not select food: to feed themselves, they simply crawl over the water, thereby creating a stream of water that carries food particles directly into the mouth, without filtering. Along with the pieces of food, the smallest plastic particles also enter the larvae. Scientists have tracked the path of these particles in the larvae 's body and then in the adult mosquitoes.

Scientists have experimented by adding yellow and blue glowing plastic beads (about a few micrometres in size) to water containers with mosquito larvae released. As the larvae developed, scientists discovered the accumulation of glowing plastic in the malpighia capillaries of insects, an organ similar to kidneys in humans.

Thus, the smallest plastic particles must not be released from the larval body and remain in the insect's body, even if the larvae become mosquitoes. Adult mosquitoes carry particles that accumulate into new habitats and become food for larger insects, birds . According to scientists, this can be dangerous for many insects. shallow and underwater.