Insects Use Plants Like A Telephone

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ScienceDaily (Apr. 27, 2008) — Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already ‘occupied’.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080423101813.htm





Have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?

Yes? Please be advised that this is my plant.

Go somewhere else....

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1. One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingy!

Insects are a lot smarter than we think! I used to believe they were basically just aliens that had been transported. Or was that in the 70's?!!

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2. I fear that we invented Quality Control

because if we didn't control it, it would get out of hand...

- Lilly Tomlin