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Rice plants observed trapping and killing fall armyworm caterpillars
- May 13, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Rice plants and Venus flytraps share something in common that was not scientifically documented until recently. Using a faint smell to lure caterpillars into a trap, rice plants killed early-stage fall armyworm larvae by trapping them in a spikelet, the part at the end of a rice panicle where individual grains develop.
Originally published at Phys.org