There was a really good talk about the marshes around Leeville before and following the oil spill. An entymologist was studying insects of the marsh before the spill and had good baseline data before the spill and when the spill was occuring she really ramped up her surveying to get in before the spill. At first there was an abundance of insects because the plants were stressed then almost nothing, but the insects were not showing oil on their bodies, so she introduced insects into the system and kept them in cages that rose with the tide and the only thing they had contact with was the actual air, no contact with the plants,e tc. They survived fine until until the temps rose to a certain degree 86 or something and they began dying rapidly, probably had to do with the volatilization of the oil in the marsh. She couldn't go into much due to legal issues and she is in the process of publishing much of her work, but it was very interesting.
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