Table 5.
Shape and size distribution of microplastics in odonate larvae from rice fields.
| Sites | Odonate Larvae |
No. * | Total MP Items | Shape | Size (µm) | MP Items/Individual | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiber | Fragment | Rod | <100 | 200–250 | 250–500 | >500 | |||||
| RF1 | Coenagrionidae | 95 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0.16 | |
| Libellulidae | 49 | 30 | 24 | 6 | 21 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0.61 | ||
| RF2 | Coenagrionidae | 113 | 23 | 23 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0.20 | ||
| Libellulidae | 48 | 44 | 36 | 8 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0.92 | ||
| RF3 | Coenagrionidae | 53 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0.23 | |
| Libellulidae | 44 | 22 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0.50 | |
| RF4 | Coenagrionidae | 7 | 33 | 24 | 9 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4.71 | |
| Libellulidae | 1 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17.00 | ||
| RF5 | Libellulidae | 8 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1.38 | ||
| Aeshnidae | 1 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12.00 | |||
| Total (%) |
219 (100) |
177 (80.82) |
40 (18.26) |
2 (0.91) |
111 (50.68) |
46 (21.00) |
31 (14.16) |
31 (14.16) |
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* No. of larvae pooled for analysis.