Source and full story.So you're probably thinking, how would a tomato eat anything? Well it's not that simple, according to study coauthor Mike Fay. He says he thinks these plants were overlooked because they aren't flashy and act in subtle ways. For one, they do not immediately digest what they trap. “They catch little aphids on the sticky hairs [on their stems] all the time. As these insects break down and drop to the ground the ground becomes enriched and the plants absorb them through the roots,
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