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| Soft bug, head and neck plate
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disturbed leaf
bugs I found in these areas shocked me to the core. I realized
I had to bring what I had detected into the open. In the
Ticino I also collected three pairs of Drosophila melanogaster
flies that I then bred in my kitchen, using the same food
that laboratories use. I protocolled four generations of
flies. (Each generation needs three weeks to grow.) I am
still flabbergasted that biologists in Western Europe did
not think it necessary to conduct any studies to find out
whether the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl had any
effects on nature or on human beings. In 1990 I traveled
with a group to Chernobyl to collect leaf bugs and to see
there for myself what was going on. [
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Picture:
Soft bug from Gysinge, Sweden
The left feeler is short and lacks two sections.
Watercolor, Gysinge 1987 |
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| Soft bug, head and neck plate
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