Dezene Huber 🌻<p>In a <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/replicated" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>replicated</span></a>, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/controlled" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>controlled</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/experiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>experiment</span></a> on wild-caught <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Culex" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Culex</span></a> spp. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/mosquitoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mosquitoes</span></a>, Thormeyer and Tseng (2023) found no effect of <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/microplastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>microplastics</span></a> at either high doses of at field-relevant doses.</p><p>Quote: “Overall, our results showed that doses of 200 or 20,000 <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/particles" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>particles</span></a> per ml of 4.8–5.8 μm polystyrene beads had no effect on the <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/body" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>body</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/size" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>size</span></a>, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>development</span></a>, or <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/growth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>growth</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/rate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rate</span></a> of Cx <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/pipiens" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pipiens</span></a> or Cx <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/tarsalis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tarsalis</span></a>.”</p><p>Paper 🔗 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad014" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad014</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Explainer 🔗 <a href="https://entomologytoday.org/2023/03/02/study-microplastic-consumption-mosquitoes/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">entomologytoday.org/2023/03/02</span><span class="invisible">/study-microplastic-consumption-mosquitoes/</span></a></p>