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Deadly termite trap
Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020108-02
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Carnivorous pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes catch anything that walk on their slippery peristome, but one species Nepenthes albomarginata is an exception, attract enormous numbers of termites through an unknown mechanism. In January 3 Nature, Marlis Merbach and colleagues from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, show that N. albomarginata uses a fringe of edible white hairs exclusively to lure and then trap termites in large numbers.
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