Artificial light can be a contributing factor to the global insektdød, say researchers. Danish researcher is not entirely in agreement with the solution.
the Number of insects in the air and on the ground has decreased dramatically over the past decades. One of the reasons is, according to a new scientific study by man-made light pollution. It writes Science.dk.
Light affects practically all aspects of a insekts life cycle, and when the insects are met by the artificial light from street lamps, car headlights, cities and everything else everywhere in the their environment affects them to such an extent that the insects are dying in droves.
the Researchers behind the new scientific study beats in an article in The Guardian alarm, because the insects have a fundamental important ecological role in relation to, among other things, they pollinate flowers of crops and to engage in throughout the global food chain as food for other animals.
“We arguments, that the artificial light is an important, but often overlooked, cause of insektapokalypsen,” write the researchers in their study according to the Science.dk.
the Researchers behind the new study has a very simple way to reduce the excessive masseuddøen among insects: turn Off the light.
They do not believe that we should turn the light off all the time, but instead use it wisely, so it bothers the insects at least possible and gives them the Kaçak Bahis best conditions to live and survive.
It can be by using light, which is coupled to a motion sensor or use LED lights, which do not contain the parts of the color spectrum, which lures insects to.
You can also displays the light, so that they only illuminate the places where it is intended, explains researchers at the Washington University website.
One of the scientists behind the study said:
“as soon As you turn off the light, it’s gone. You don’t even need to clean up after themselves,” says postdoctoral researcher Brett Seymoure from Colorado State University to The Guardian.
the Interpretation of the apocalyptic scenario for the insects is associate professor Thomas Pape from the Natural history Museum, University of Copenhagen’t 100 percent agree with that.
“My own interpretation of the more general problem is that we people fill more and more on our planet. The more space we occupy, and the more we affect the various habitats with houses, roads, parking lots, fields, forestry, chemicals and light, the less space is left, where other species can thrive,” writes Thomas Pape in an email to Science.dk.
Thomas Pape believes that it is certainly appropriate to look at what influence light has on the natural populations of insects, but it should not come as a surprise, to nocturnal insects, which are adapted to life at low light intensity, get into trouble when we set up artificial light sources.
“It is perhaps a little misleading when researchers write that you can minimize the insektdøden by switching off the light. It is certainly better and more sustainable with less light, but the places that we want to have lit by artificial light, is by far mostly places that are already so heavily influenced by people, that there already may be talking about the dramatic changes in the natural balance,” says Thomas Pape.
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