Thrips desert cycad cone

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Uploaded by on Oct 4, 2007

More: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12739
A study has found that certain primitive cycad plants in Australia heat themselves up and emit odors to drive pollen-covered thrips out of male cycad cones, where the tiny insects eat pollen (Credit: Irene Terry)

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  • how does it heat itself up exactly?

    and why can I hear someone having sex in the back?

  • Hi hedaman353, in answer to your first question, the cycad heats itself up by using some of its food stores. Basically it burns some of its fat and starch.

    I can't help you with your second question. All I can hear is the insects buzzing, and a bird or something similar squawking in the background. If that sounds like sex to you, that's your private issue. :)

    Michael Marshall, online editorial assistant

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  • Says this video is no longer available-is it just me.?

  • What are all those bugs crawling over the cycad?

  • I can't hear anything. All I can hear is someone breathing and buzzing.

  • there is a sex noies in the back ground. kind of like the ants are biting someone

  • ^ LMFAO!

  • eww.

  • Sweet sex noises 5 star

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