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...

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