Beetles trick plants with microbe-laced vomit

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Bacteria living inside Colorado potato beetles can fool plants into thinking they’re being attacked by a microbe, rather than a chewing herbivore.

height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnsvdpU1d7IIYJ7vALdmb37QOK_vXumWf_sNYSTFta-hPuNvRR6hksyrL-6BYGjPSXlz70Xr9GDR9bBY0pgDpsuwIZaubUxQeLeQG2ayWmCZ8h8r7bTd-mupQ5hJyfxOlxmLoSqnl73kC5/s320/Colorado-potato-beetle.jpg" title="Beetles" width="320">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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