Acute Exposure to Traces of Chlorantraniliprole Does Not Alter Antipredator Behaviour in Wild Crickets
Emily Gilford, Miranda Johnstone, Mark Pitt, Rolando Rodríguez‐Muñoz, Chris Bass, Tom Tregenza, Bram Kuijper · 2026
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Emily Gilford and colleagues report in 2026 on wild field crickets exposed once to a very low dose of a common farm insecticide. Most earlier tests of such low exposures were done in the lab and focused on bees, so the team took their test outdoors with Gryllus campestris.
Adult crickets were given either the insecticide chlorantraniliprole or a sham treatment, then faced a mock predator attack in the field. The researchers timed how fast each cricket escaped and how long it waited in its burrow before coming out again. Neither measure differed in a steady way between groups, though waiting time grew over days for all crickets. The findings temper concern about one brief low-level exposure.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Emily Gilford, Miranda Johnstone, Mark Pitt, Rolando Rodríguez‐Muñoz, Chris Bass, Tom Tregenza, Bram Kuijper |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46106 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |