Plastic pollution harms the servants, Beetles, snails and earthy warromas, she found new research, Raising fears from British entire food chain is contaminated.
Researchers found more than one in ten bugs had Plastic fragments In their stomachs, causing harmful chemicals to be transferred to larger animals that feed them, such as birds and hedgehogs.
Students are scientists on Sussex and Exeter universities, analyzed more than 580 samples of errors with 51 websites throughout Sussex.
Microplasty was found in almost 12 percent of errors with the highest levels recorded in earthly głlovi (30 percent) and snails and snails (24 percent).
Polyester, most likely than clothing, was the most common type of plastic found in the examined invertebrates.
Researchers are suspected of these plastic fiber came from dried human sewer sludge used as fertilizer by some farmers and can contain fiber from the washing machine.
One common garden black beetle was found with a 4.5 mm long piece of nylon inside it – it is a quarter of its body length.
Although the animals that feed on break-up herbal material had the highest rates of plastic, affected and carnivorous insects, such as Damabird.
Researchers say that finding fresh concerns about the long-term effects of plastic pollution and its influence on biodiversity and should no longer be seen as an exclusive marine issue.
“We were surprised exactly how many plastic contamination,” said the lead author Emily Thrift, an ecological doctoral teacher in University of Sussex.
“This is the first study that would find plastic consistently facing over the entire community of invertebrates of the land.
“Similar plastic species were found in Feedhi in your earlier research, and they seem to enter birds, mammals and reptiles through their showers.”
One previous insect studies from 2024. He discovered the swallowing of plastics could lead to a staggered growth, reduced fertility and changes in the function of liver, kidneys and stomachs in various species, and brew the alarm among conservatives.
In another study in 2020. year published in a journal global change in biology, break, type of small bird, about 200 plastic particles a day of insects eaten. Three in four fragments found in the birds was less than 0.5 mm in size, but they are in length a few millimeters.
Professor Fiona Mathews, biologist for environmental protection at the University of Sussex, emphasized that microplastics are now on all levels of the food chain, from errors to mammals.
She said: “Attention is currently focused on litter as a main source of contamination, but these findings suggest more sources in the range of clothes to color.”
Researchers say their work includes six inverstebrated groups and four levels of the food chain, the need for researching how these different plastics harm environment and implement stronger measures to restrict plastic pollution.