Scientists found that a caterpillar called the tomato fruit worm not only chomps on tomatoes and their leaves, but also deposits enzyme-laden saliva on the plant, interfering with its ability to ...

Injured tomato plants can induce caterpillars to become cannibals. Injured tomato plants can induce caterpillars to become cannibals. John Orrock Plants are often seen as taking a passive role in ...

A platoon of caterpillars, young and hungry, descend on a defenseless tomato plant to feast, but as they begin to eat something goes terribly wrong. The leaves no longer satisfy, and they turn on each ...

vegetarian caterpillar become a cannibalistic caterpillar, even when there is still plenty of plant left to eat? When the tomato plant it's feeding on makes cannibalism the best option ...

According to new research, however, tomato fruits are able to transmit alerts to their mother plant when attacked by caterpillars. Given the fact that sap typically only runs from the plant to the ...

Orrock and his research team sprayed tomato plants with methyl jasmonate ... (Read more about how plants listen for caterpillars to prompt defenses.) “What I find most interesting is that ...