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Strong Support
Plants make a wide variety of natural chemicals—like bitter toxins and sticky resins—that make them taste bad or even poison bugs that try to eat them.
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Plants make special chemicals when bugs eat them, and these chemicals make the plants taste bad or hard to digest for the bugs — this study says exactly that, based on lots of scientific research.
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