Post by Jason Loghry, June 26
Pesticides decimating dragonflies and other aquatic insects
“According to a new study looking at over 50 streams in Germany, France, and Australia, scientists found that pesticide contamination was capable of undercutting invertebrate biodiversity by nearly half.
‘Pesticide use has not decreased in the last decade […] and is predicted to increase in the next decades due to climate change and thus may be a more important driver of biodiversity loss in the future,’ the scientists write.”
Have similar studies on impacts of pesticides on insects been assessed here in the Republic of Korea?
Read more at:
http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0618-hance-pesticides-insects.html