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Caterpillars listen to voicemail by eating soil

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2019-03-21

Leaf-eating caterpillars greatly enrich their intestinal flora by eating soil. Even effects of plants that previously grew in that soil can be found back in bacteria and fungi in caterpillars. Researchers from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and Leiden University write about this discovery in Nature Communications.

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https://phys.org/news/2019-03-caterpillars-voicemail-soil.html