He's very well drawn :-)
If you pull the body off an aphid's head while the aphid is sucking sap from a plant, the head will continue to suck sap for hours, and the sap comes dripping out of the severed neck.
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Thu 27 Feb 2003, 4:11,
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Crap for the aphid, perhaps,
but I'm told that biologists find it very useful when conducting experiments on the transfer of nutrients via the phloem.
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Thu 27 Feb 2003, 4:16,
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Aphids
are treated like bitches by ants. I saw a documentary where nasty ants had a 'farm' of aphids, who they'd milk of sap and generally humiliate. Ants are bastards in my opinion.
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