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Stickiness is a weapon some plants use to fend off hungry insects

  • Written by Eric LoPresti, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Oklahoma State University
imageA coat of sand makes an effective armor.Eric LoPresti, CC BY-SA

Imagine the texture of a plant. Many may come to mind – the smooth rubberiness of many tropical houseplants, the impossibly soft lamb’s ear, the sharp spines of cacti, or the roughness of tree bark. But stickiness, in the flypaper-stick-to-your-fingers sense, probably...

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