Insects: bringing laboratory and field findings together

What this paper brings together

Reviews laboratory and field research on insect responses to electromagnetic fields, with attention to power lines and wireless infrastructure.

The authors’ synthesis or proposal

The authors find substantial laboratory evidence of biological effects and more limited field evidence, and argue that environmental EMF deserves greater ecological attention.

Reading the connections carefully

The scale of ecosystem consequences remains uncertain. Laboratory effects, varied dose regimes and partly confirmed field observations cannot establish that EMF caused a particular population decline or predict a 5G-specific effect.

Study records to read alongside

These are topical connections within this library. A link does not mean the review cited this particular paper or independently confirmed its result.

• ECO-003 Bee queen development under GSM exposure
• ECO-004 Homing ability of exposed honey bees
• ECO-006 Double-blind broadband RF disruption of a bird magnetic compass
• WEB-047 3.6 GHz: mosquito development and nutritional susceptibility
• ECO-007 Magnetic-compass disruption extends to 75-85 MHz in blackcaps