Abstract
Conservation India is the second most populous country and has 9 out of the 10 most polluted cities in the world. Pollution there, as everywhere, is known to harm human health and well-being, but little work has characterized its direct effects in nature. Thimmegowda et al. looked at the impact of air pollution on the giant Asian honey bee ( Apis dorsata ) in and around Bangalore and found that there was a direct correlation between pollution levels and differences in flower visitation behavior, heart rate, hemocyte levels, and ultimately survival. Results from experimental exposure of laboratory-reared Drosophila at the same sites where bees were collected supported the conclusion that these changes were caused by air pollution. These results have important implications for pollution harming ecosystem services, as well as humans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117 , 20653 (2020).
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