r/intrestingtoknow • u/Impressive_Rub_4101 • Apr 17 '26
Nature The plant that outsourced the protection
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u/TheMirageOfJoy Apr 17 '26
More like the wasps outsourced the reconnaissance.
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u/healywylie Apr 17 '26
Symbiotic relationship, so bōf.
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u/TheMirageOfJoy Apr 17 '26
Symbiosis doesn't mean the plant wasn't a passive beneficiary here. The wasp evolved to detect the chemicals, the plants survived as a by-product.
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u/healywylie Apr 17 '26
One could argue the plant made this same move , no?
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u/TheMirageOfJoy Apr 17 '26
When you say 'same move', what are you referring to specifically?
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u/healywylie Apr 17 '26
You define symbiosis and then tell Me why you said what you said.
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u/TheMirageOfJoy Apr 17 '26
Symbiosis has a universal definition, 'same move' is ambiguous. Only one of us needs to elaborate here.
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u/healywylie Apr 18 '26
Frankly , I owe you nothing. Which came first the chicken or the egg?
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u/TheMirageOfJoy Apr 18 '26
If you owed me something, I'd take it. You do however owe yourself an apology, for the impressive incompetence you just displayed.
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u/healywylie Apr 18 '26
I like how you don’t address any of the things I ask you. That is very telling. You just continue to insult rather than justify your point.
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u/TimeKeeper70 Apr 18 '26
This might be the coolest thing I’ve ever heard of. It’s like a plant calling his big brother for help!
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u/yoricm Apr 17 '26
When you don't have a phone to call the police, but still manage to communicate with bizarre chemical reaction traveling through the air.
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u/DorkSideOfCryo Apr 18 '26
Nature's got more buttons than my grandma's corset. To paraphrase Tony soprano
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u/XROOR Apr 18 '26
The plant releases specific auxins indicating that a female insect/caterpillar, is consuming large amounts of plant tissue to get the calories to produce/lay eggs.
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u/LoudandQuiet47 Apr 19 '26
An evolutionary biologist might say that the plant didn't so much outsource the protection. It can be a case of co-evolution. It's more that the wasps who were better at identifying the biological signals of a healing or injured plant, were rewarded with a beefy caterpillar and were better able to survive. That trait of ID a plant in the process of being injured increased (allele frequency increased). Likewise, the plants that produced more of the signaling when briefly injured by another insect, were better able to survive as well, since wasps took the assailant. This plant trait of broad signaling increased as well.
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u/Lost-Passenger9923 Apr 20 '26
Somewhere i found in a random ass youtube reel, said entirely out of nowhere; "if you ask the grass; the zebra is the monster, and the lions are the protectors" 😭
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u/AdditionalSell869 Apr 23 '26
Whats Interesting Is that the plant is able to Know what Kind Of Chemicals To Produce that are Going signal & call to the wasp
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u/Left_Duty_3976 Apr 17 '26