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Bees In Argentina Are Building Nests Using Plastic Waste
31 May 2019, 9:46 pm EDT By Allan Adamson Tech Times
Researchers have found that wild bees in Argentina are building their nests using strange materials. The insects have been building nests made entirely of plastic waste.
Bees Build Nest Made Of Plastic Materials
Study researcher Mariana Allasino, from the Argentina's National Agricultural Technology Institute, and colleagues set wild bee "hotels." These are structures with long and hollow tubes, which bees can fill with any material they like to build nest for their young.
These bees normally create their nests using leaves, mud, stones, tree resin, petals, and whatever they can scavenge.
Over the spring and summer of 2017 and 2018, the researchers monitored the nests and found three. Two of these were built with mud and petals, but one was constructed out of plastic.
More:
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/244043/20190531/bees-in-argentina-are-building-nests-using-plastic-waste.htm
Environment and energy:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127128021
