This flower smells like dying ants, and flies can’t resist it

This flower smells like dying ants, and flies can’t resist it

Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo has discovered that Vincetoxicum nakaianum, a dogbane species native to Japan described for the first time by Mochizuki and his collaborators only a year ago, mimics the smell of ants attacked by spiders to…

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