Apathetic aphids with attitude become easier prey for ladybugs
Saturday, August 7, 2010 - 04:01
in Biology & Nature
Apathetic aphids - which become accustomed to ignoring genetically engineered chemical alarms in plants and alarms sent by fellow aphids - become easy prey for ladybugs. That's good news for farmers, according to researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Cornell University...