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Flower Chemicals And UV Vision

 
 
Lionheart
13:05 / 27.11.01
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Nov01/DIP.flowers.hrs.html

quote:ITHACA, N.Y. -- When some insects zero in on a flower for nectar, their ultraviolet vision is guided by a bull's-eye "painted" on the plant by chemical compounds. Now, chemical ecologists at Cornell University have discovered a second job for these compounds: warding off herbivores.
 
  
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