Half of Amazon insects could face dangerous heat stress

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"Current evaluations of the heat tolerance of insects such as moths, flies, and beetles paint a differentiated -- and at the same time alarming -- picture," says study author Dr. Kim Holzmann, a researcher at the Chair of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU).

The research suggests that insects do not simply adjust their heat tolerance to match their surroundings. "While species at higher altitudes can increase th...

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