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Nature’s recourse

How plants and animals fight back when deals go sour

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Nature has a shifty side. Bees cheat flowers. Flowers cheat bees. Fish cheat other fish, and so on. The more biologists look, the more skulduggery turns up.

NATURE’S RECOURSE Skulduggery is rampant in nature, but cheated partners have ways to retaliate. Nicolle Rager Fuller

GREEDY POLLINATORS The Epicephala moth may cheat its partner tree by laying an egg in a flower that already contains an egg.