Posted on 06/20/2023 10:47:09 AM PDT by grundle
Air pollution is having an unbelievable effect on flies, altering how they attract one another and mate.
What’s happening?
Insects typically find their mates by heavily relying on pheromones –– chemicals that allow males and females to locate each other and mate.
These pheromones are distinctive to males and females of a species, and in the case of flies, they are being disrupted and degraded by the pervasive increase of ozone in the air, which is a result of air pollution.
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany discovered these effects by developing an experiment that mimicked ozone levels similar to what is measured during the summertime in cities.
Typically, male flies’ pheromones attract females while simultaneously repelling other males. But increased ozone levels caused a decrease in pheromones, which caused females to be less attracted to males and led to courtship between male flies.
“We could explain that males started courting each other after a short ozone exposure because they obviously could not distinguish ozonated males from females,” said researchers Nanji Jiang and Markus Knaden. “However, we had not thought about this before. Therefore, we were quite puzzled by the behavior of the ozone-exposed males, which lined up in long courtship chains.”
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Is it just gay flies or is it really LGBTQ flies? Are there flies self-identifying as a different gender?
Will the taxpayers fund their transitioning surgery?
Who pays for this chit?
Who knew flies were Trans or Questioning their gender? What are their pronouns? We must know.
What a load of hogwash.
The only thing you can tell is something from their mating habits. Most of the letters in the alphabet soup do not apply.
Lysenko would be amazed.
Insane Scientists
Maybe it’s causing an increase in the population of LGBTQ humans.
Set out a dead animal and see how long it takes one female to lay eggs and the animal be covered with wiggling maggots the next day.
IF it happens the female flies are still being bred by male flies and laying eggs.
Soon flies will have higher incidences of domestic abuse and STD’s.
Does this mean all flies are now fruit flies?
“...chemicals that allow males and females to locate each other and mate.”
That still exists no matter what is in the air. It’s called beer or mixed drinks that don’t exactly need an umbrella.
wy69
How are flies TQ? FLIES… can’t communicate their gender identities and observations of sexual behaviors would only show LGB.
We already know from prison populations homosexual acts can be a choice when other outlets aren’t available. We also know drunk flies go gay as well. Probably like frat boys.
The headline uses the acronym “lgbtq” although I didn’t see it in the article.
Looks like pollution injures the flies so they can’t reproduce. That would make “lgbtq” a pathology.
They said it, I didn’t.
Ozone? Like the smell of electric motors ozone? What makes a climatologist think putting more electric motors on the roads will decrease the ozone?
After all the years of coal burning and now all of a sudden we have increase in the LGBTQ population of flies but China doesn’t.
That sounds right huh Moe.
I guess humans will have to lay off the Cologne and perfume or more folks will become rainbowy.
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Then we need more air pollution, QUEER and LESBIAN flies don’t breed and I hate f#cken flies!
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