Science & Environment

The tobacco sphinx caterpillar

Émission

Le journal du dimanche
18 May 2014

Daniel Cherix

Biologie et de médecine, UNIL

The caterpillars of the tobacco sphinx have an effective way of avoiding being eaten by wolf spiders: they have bad breath loaded with nicotine.

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