Deep Look
Sharpshooter Insects’ Sexy Vibrations Spell Trouble in the Vineyard
2020 • E10 May 19, 2020 5m
Sharpshooter insects are beautiful, but they transmit a devastating disease that kills grapevines. When it's time to mate, they shake their abdomens to make strange calls that – when amplified in a lab – sound like a clucking chicken, a howling monkey or a motorcycle revving up. Now scientists have found a way to use their songs against them.