Global Warming Forcing Tropical Insects Toward Extinction

Boston (dbTechno) - According to U.S. scientists, global warming poses the biggest threat to tropical insects. The scientists believe that tropical insects will be among the first to become extinct from global warming.

Researchers looked at daily and monthly global temperatures from 1950 to 2000 for their study.

Tropical species are most vulnerable because of the fact that they are not used to changes in temperature.

With an increase of just a few degrees in temperature, it could lead to their extinction.

Researchers at the University of Washington stated that as of right now, many of the tropical insects are living at their optimum temperature. If this changes though, they face many problems.

They believe that tropical species cannot tolerate a change in temperature because they are in a constant climate throughout the year.

They concluded that rising temperatures will harm them more than species in cold climates.