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Salivary surprise: Symmerista caterpillars anoint petioles with red saliva after clipping leaves
After feeding on a tree leaf, caterpillars in ten families sever the petiole and allow the remaining leaf fragment to fall to the ground. Previous researchers proposed that the caterpillars thereby reduced bird predation by eliminating visual evidence of feeding. In this study, 26 species of caterpi...
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8926259/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35294481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265490 |