Below – aboveground insect interactions

clipped from www.textually.org Insects Use Plant Like a "Telephone" clipped from www.cellular-news.com Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already 'occupied’. clipped from www.nioo.knaw.nl Roxina Soler Gamborena Linking interactions between above- and below-ground herbivores and the performance of parasitoids and hyperparasitoids (NWO)