Plants with toxic alkaloids - University of Washington
Plants with toxic alkaloids - University of Washington
Plants with toxic alkaloids - University of Washington
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<strong>Plants</strong> help snails to defend against insects!<br />
Snails are slow animals, both in the speed <strong>of</strong> their locomotion & nervous<br />
transmission. How do these sitting ducks defend against ants.<br />
When you poke a slug<br />
<strong>with</strong> a toothpick & wiggle<br />
it, the slug will produce a<br />
rubbery blob around the<br />
tip. Ant would be muzzled;<br />
fixed mandibles<br />
How do snail eggs survive from being eaten?<br />
They are protected by an isoprenoid= terpene called miriamine.<br />
R: Thomas Eisner “ For love <strong>of</strong> insects” Harvard <strong>University</strong> Press, 2003
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