Galls are tumor-like growths that occur when insects feed or lay eggs on leaves, and mines are tunnels left behind by insect larvae as they wiggle around eating plant material.
Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...
This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We fool ourselves most days. We imagine the Earth to be ours, but it belongs to them. We have barely begun to count ...