Gillison ML, Zhang Q, Jordan R, Xiao W, Westra WH, Trotti A, Spencer S, Harris J, Chung CH, Ang KK
These indirect defenses include both nutritive rewards such as extra-floral nectar, as well as informational rewards, such as the production and release of volatile compounds that betray the location of feeding herbivores to predators. These scientists showed volatile aliphatic acids from the headspace of the tobacco hornworm are also used by ants to locate their prey.1 This chain of aliphatic acids originates from the digestion of plant O -acyl sugars consumed by the hornworm
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