Breath can save lives - of insects at least. A new study conducted by Haifa University and published Current Biology, shows that aphids detect the breath of mammals that come to eat the plants they live on. The aphids immediately fall to the grown and thus avoid being eaten themselves.
The study is entitled "Mammalian herbivore breath alerts aphids to flee host plant" and was written by Moshe Gish, Amots Dafni and Moshe Inbar of the Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology at the University of Haifa.