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regions where the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl,
or from normally working nuclear power plants, hits ground,
the vegetation is contaminated, and a certain percentage
of the insects, like leaf bugs, become morphologically
disturbed.
Her first research trip, in the summer of 1987, brought
her to the regions worst hit by the Chernobyl radioactive
cloud: the south of Sweden and the southern part of Switzerland,
known as the Ticino. She captured leaf bugs in those regions,
insects that were two generations removed from the Chernobyl
accident, and studied their health with her binocular microscope.
She concluded that the fallout from Chernobyl had caused
a significant number of morphological malformations among
Heteroptera leaf bugs, Drosophila fruit flies, and plants. |
Picture:
Scorpion Fish from the Coney Island Aquarium
Aquarell
New York, 1966 |
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