Tiny Telephones.
Entered By: grantb on May 1, 2008
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LiveScience is on the line with a call about insect telephones. Please hold – this plant is busy:
When a subterranean insect takes up residence below a plant, it settles in to feast on the plant’s roots. In order to alert leaf-eating insects of the “no vacancy,” the underground insect sends a chemical warning signal through the plant leaves, so the leafeaters are alerted that the plant is occupied.
