cartwatch most popular herbicide leaves a heavy environmental footprint by charity isely impairs insect immune function researchers concluded glyphosate might factor in the current decline of insect leaving them more susceptible to pathogens the study also found an alarming twist in the implications to public health-glyphosate enhances the susceptibility of a species of mosquito potentially enhance the mosquitos' ability to infect humans with malaria reduces earthworm reproduction and function earthworms are often called soil engineers helping to enhance soil nutrient availability fact that a team of austrian researchers found roundup exposure reduced the productivity and reproductive capabilities of two earthworm study published in the journal scientific reports showed that the surface the other species declined by 56 percent after three months "perturbs the gut microbiota of honeybees" glyphosate could potentially be a factor in honeybee decline according to a 2018 study at the university of bees to glyphosate at levels currently in the environment reduced the abundance of mortality within hives depletes mineral availability in food glyphosate was patented as a pipe cleaner before becoming the world's most used herbicide because of its efficiency as a chelating factor in nutrient deficiencies in crops.” studies have found that glyphosate residue or drift reduces the uptake of essential minerals like making them more susceptible to disease these deficiencies continue through the food what you can do