date:Sep 19, 2018
he particles were transferred into the mosquitoes' adult form, meaning whatever creatures then ate the flying insects in the wild would also ingest the plastic.
The significance is that this is quite possibly widespread, Amanda Callaghan, biological scientist at Reading and the lead study author, told AFP.
We were just looking at mosquitoes as an example but there are lots of insects that live in water and have the same life-cycle with larvae that eat things in water and then emerge as adults.