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[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

No argument about pesticides, but herbicides are what I am concerned with currently as there seems to be some confusion with their effect on insects. In my ten-minute internet education on the topic, it seems there is a decided effect with herbicides and insects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502833/

  • Insects directly exposed to herbicides experienced high mortality; while those fed leaf material that had been exposed to herbicides did not.

So, both direct and indirect impacts (melanin and their immune systems) as well as greatly reducing the plant sources they may be accustomed to frequenting is a triple-whammy. I do hate mosquitoes, but I feel bad for all the other bugs and what this will do to the world.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

People aren't spraying herbicides for mosquitoes though, they're spraying pesticides that also kill bees, grasshoppers, and beetles. I'm not defending herbicide use, but as far as insect populations are concerned, pesticides are a serious direct threat

[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I was not implying that people were spraying herbicides for mosquitoes, but merely mentioned them as a sympathetic exception.

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