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Mistletoe rescue mission
Botanists have banded together to bring native mistletoes back to Wellington city, using seeds rescued from a plant growing on a dying tree.
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Moth Makes Different Chemical Weapons for Different Predators - Inkfish
You should never bring a knife to gunfight, or try to beat a bird with ant repellant. That’s how the expression would go if a wood tiger moth coined it, anyway.
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The kākāpō, the bat and the parasitic plant
Fossilised dung (coprolites) from kākāpō in a cave in the South Island has revealed an unexpected and hitherto unknown relationship between three of the country’s most unusual threatened species
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Plants use advertising-like strategies to attract bees with colour and scent
Rather that trying to out-compete each other, flowers may work together to attract bees en masse. It's the sort of approach that is effective in the world of advertising too.
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Two herbivores gang up and silence a plant’s cries for help
Caterpillar presence mutes broccoli's production of chemicals that attract aphid parasitoids, allowing both pests to wreak havoc on the plant. To read this article log in with the i-centre log in details.
newscientist.com
