7 Dec 2013

Red for danger

From This Way Up, 1:35 pm on 7 December 2013

Using the native pepper tree, the horopito, Ignatius Menzies of Victoria University and a team of international researchers have shown that insects prefer to eat green leaves rather than red ones.

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