“The Chewing bite of a caterpillar on a leaf of barrel clover will make the plant produce jasmonic acid, whereas the tiny piercing bite of a spider mite will cause the plant to make salicylic acid instead.”

Riskin, Dan. 2014. Mother Nature is Trying to Kill You.

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