Ants may be the first known insects ensnared in plastic pollution

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Ants may be the first known insects ensnared in plastic pollution
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pernicious polymer pollutionScientists noticed the tangled insects while studying 113 ants they’d collected from the volcanic island of La Palma. Oneant was wrapped in a black fiber. Chemical and physical analyses of the fibers, which were woven around the ants’ bodies and legs, revealed they were made of plastic. to construct their protective body casings, says Bethanie Carney Almroth, an ecotoxicologist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden who was not involved in the new research.

“These last 15 years, we have acquired enormous knowledge about what happens in marine ecosystems, but it is time to expand to other systems and species for obtaining a greater perspective,” says urban ecologist Álvaro Luna of the European University of Madrid.

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