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Ep. 358 - Oaks, Wasps, Galls, and Ants

In Defense of Plants Podcast

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Using the Best Body Guards in the Animal Kingdom to Your Advantage

Galls are essentially moving auger plates for fungle infection. So i could see that beng any grub is ripe for infection, so why not? Right? And you think too, like i look at some of the galls that are more apparent on the landscape, the really bright red ones. You know, there's there's evidence that there's their concentrating anthosinans all these anti microbial, anti oxcident compounds as another form of defense. I mean, that's the he the wasp larva, whatever the gall making larva, manipulating the plants defences for its own use. Well, these things are so cryptic yhavy. That's the thing

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