Unseen Jungle by Eleanor Spicer Rice

Author:Eleanor Spicer Rice [Rice, Eleanor Spicer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781536231731
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2023-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

So go on, little bee. Give those guts a high five! Or maybe don’t do that. That might be gross. Just be kind to them and let that gut garden grow.

Fuzzy, brown, and a little bigger than a poppy seed: the coffee berry borer, along with its millions of fuzzy, brown, little-bigger-than-poppy- seed-sized friends, causes more than $500 million worth of damage to coffee beans a year. This beetle eats coffee beans, even though coffee beans contain one of the deadliest natural poisons to insectkind: caffeine.

Plants have been around on earth a lot longer than humans. Insects began chomping away on those plants millions of years before humans ever sat on a rock and called it a chair. During that time, plants had to adapt ways to protect themselves from all those hungry insects. Why not poison them? Many plants turn the nutrients they suck up from the soil into toxins in the hopes they will bump off eager flowermunchers before they do too much damage. Apple seeds have cyanide. Walnuts have arsenic. And coffee has caffeine.

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