Glyphosate dangerous to beetles as well as plants
The herbicide could harm bacteria that insects rely on.
The saw-toothed grain beetle (Oryzaephilus surinamensis) on oat flakes. Credit: Julian Kiefer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
The commonly used herbicide glyphosate might not be just bad news for bees. New research has found it could have broader ramifications for the survival of other insects by affecting their bacterial allies.
The study, published in the journal
Communications Biology, showed that glyphosate inhibits a biochemical pathway in bacteria that was previously only thought to affect plants, making them unable to supply the growing sawtoothed grain beetle with essential nutrients.
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Members of SAGE sub-group SPI-M said the variant will infect a lot more people because it spreads faster
The variant is concentrated in London, the East and South East of England but is spreading elsewhere
Two cases of a second, potentially even faster spreading variant from South Africa were announced last night