{"id":709,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/climate-crisis-could-change-mating-behaviour-of-insects\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","slug":"climate-crisis-could-change-mating-behaviour-of-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/climate-crisis-could-change-mating-behaviour-of-insects\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate crisis could change mating behaviour of insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-07-15 16:43:30<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Climate change could impact insects\u2019 colours and their sex lives.<BR><br \/>\nAccording to scientists at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, the rising global temperature could lead to insects becoming lighter in colour, which could ultimately affect their ability to find one another to mate.<BR><br \/>\nIn a recent study published in the \u2018Ecology and Evolution\u2019 journal, author Mariella Herberstein said: \u201cOn the one hand, we could be rejoicing, saying: how are the insects? They are responding to climate change. We don\u2019t have to worry about them.<BR><br \/>\n\u201cAnd then we could wake up the next day going: Oh, damn \u2013 they can\u2019t find each other any more because they have lost really important identification colours that help them find a mate.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nHerberstein explained the prevailing theory among experts is that creepy-crawlies produce less melanin pigment in hotter climates, which leads to them appearing brighter and lighter in colour.<BR><br \/>\nThis idea seems to hold some weight, as a 2016 study found Mead\u2019s sulphur butterflies in the North American mountains have grown paler at the same time as temperatures increased. <BR><br \/>\nHowever, a follow-up review that looked at over 800 butterflies collected from museum samples between 1953 and 2013 found some of the specimens developed richer and darker wings over time.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-07-15 16:43:30 Climate change could impact insects\u2019 colours and their sex lives. According to scientists at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, the rising global temperature could lead to insects becoming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}