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Israeli research finds that when plants talk, insects listen
ISRAEL, JUL 15 – Female moths detect ultrasonic distress signals from tomato plants and avoid laying eggs on stressed plants, confirming a new form of acoustic plant-insect interaction, researchers said.
- A team at Tel Aviv University found that female moths avoided laying eggs on tomato plants that made distress noises, suggesting potential harm to the plants.
- The sounds produced by the plants are outside the range of human hearing but are detectable by insects and some mammals.
- This study is the first demonstration of an animal responding to sounds produced by a plant, according to Prof Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University.
- The female moths preferred silent plants, indicating they use these acoustic cues to find optimal egg-laying sites.
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There is evidence that plants and insects communicate through sound, according to researchers from Tel Aviv University, opening a new field in the study of acoustic communication in nature.
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Researchers have already shown that plants "talk" to each other, but it seems to go even further: insects should be able to "listen" the communication of plants.
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vijesti.meThis opens up the possibility that there is an invisible ecosystem between plants and animals.
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