you make adenosine triphosphate sound like a bad thing. biology 101 crash course: remember ATP? Adenosine TriPhosphate? the stuff that fuels all cellular metabolism? if anything that should give your plant a HUGE boost.
^^^ This is what I was thinking.^^^ judging primarily by the compound's makeup (ie; carbon,nitrogen,phosphorus, and oxygen), it sounded like plant rocket fuelbiology 101 crash course: remember ATP? Adenosine TriPhosphate? the stuff that fuels all cellular metabolism? if anything that should give your plant a HUGE boost.
^^^ This is what I was thinking.^^^ judging primarily by the compound's makeup (ie; carbon,nitrogen,phosphorus, and oxygen), it sounded like plant rocket fuel
I did feed one to one of my VFT's minus the butt and it "chewed" on it for about 4 days and opened back up, but that was a butt-less firefly. sounds like this may be worthy of an experiment
Yup, sure did. you don't think that makes me weird or sadistic or anything, does it MUUHHAAHHHYou chopped off the butt before hand? Yeesh!
What's even worse is the DiHydrogen Monoxide in their butts. That stuff kills millions of people and plants a year!
Though the only experience I have with fireflies and cps is that after I put one in a vft the whole plant died back. Don't know if that's why, but it did.
Good point. Evolution can do some interesting things and create some incredible relationships between two or more organisms (Palythoa caribaeorum contain a highly toxic palytoxin, believed to be produced by a bacteria that live in symbiosis with the polyps offering the two an amount of protection from predation, not coincidentally, Abudefduf saxatilis can consume the coral polyps containing the palytoxin on a regular basis, presumably to store the toxin as a defense/deterrent of there own. Link ). Humm seems I have wandered slightly off topic.Of course its possible that toads, being nocturnal, would develop a way to deal with any toxins they might get from firefly du jour, but I would think that plants that must catch at least a few lightning bugs upon occasion, must also have some defenses.