re running around shouting, "The British are coming, the British are coming," getting everybody in Boston to grab guns and call for reinforcements," Berenbaum said. "With this early waming signal, the caterpillars can activate their detox systems ahead of time for whatever the plant mobilizes." In a serie

cost to fitness in the absence of plant defenses." There has been a lot of attention focused on how plants anticipate what insects are going to do, Berenbaum said. "This study shows that plants may have won some battles but the outcome of the war has not been determined. It's really an ongoing interactio