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Greg Sutton was closely inspecting the back legs of a planthopper nymph — a small green, flightless insect — when he noticed something odd.

There was a tiny row of bumps on the inside of each leg where it met the insect’s body. The bumps looked just like the teeth of …Read More

Source: NPR Science – ingested into KQED

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