Celebrating Plants and the Planet:

 

Plants have a strange life of murder and mayhem all their own, and they associate secretly with worms and engineers. This month’s Zoo & Botanical News (www.zooplantman.com) looks at the sordid side of botany.

 

Take, for example, dodder. It looks creepy and, as the first story shows, it really IS creepy.  The next story follows forensic botanists to murder scenes.

 

What about those worms? The third story this month asks why nightcrawlers are collecting seeds. While the fourth story reports that bees seek out flowers for warmth while flowers have evolved to capture heat in order to lure in bees. And that’s on top of the whole color and pollen and nectar thing!

 

Finally, back to us humans, or at least engineers, who are taking a lesson from lotus leaves on how to stay clean.

                               

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