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Offline iago

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Plant security
« on: December 31, 2009, 01:13:19 pm »
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/plant_security.html

Very cool -- apparently, when plants are being eaten by, for example, a caterpillar, they'll release chemicals that attract both dragonflies and parasites, both of which will feed on the caterpillar.
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Re: Plant security
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2009, 02:41:55 pm »
This is the entire plot of the movie The Happening.  Only instead of caterpillars, it's humans, and instead of dragonflies, it's suicide.
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Re: Plant security
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2009, 05:40:33 pm »
My friend had an interesting comment: the article doesn't mention fruit-bearing plants, which *want* to be eaten (in order to spread the seeds), and that doesn't die (or get harmed) when that happens.
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