Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Beetles trick plants with microbe-laced vomit

Bacteria living inside Colorado potato beetles can fool plants into thinking they’re being attacked by a microbe, rather than a chewing herbivore.
Beetles
Beetles don’t have salivary glands and so they regurgitate oral secretions onto leaves to begin digestion. These secretions contain gut bacteria.

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