Why do sick plants invite predators to eat them? I don’t think we know for sure. And even if they do land on a healthy plant, for the most part, they do not have the enzymes to digest a healthy plant. Healthy plants simply do not emit these strong frequencies, so insects do not see healthy plants as a food source. It turns out that only sick plants emit them in such a manner as to be seen as food! This finding is one of the most amazing implications for organic gardeners and farmers. Plants also emit pheromones that insects interpret as “food.” Not all plants emit these pheromones, though. These antennae interpret electromagnetic frequencies in the infrared spectrum, which is right beside the visual light spectrum that we see. That’s how they find a mate and that’s how they find their food. ![]() Insects, on the other hand, sense much of their surroundings with their antennae. Sounds crazy, right?Īnimals (like us) see with our eyes in the visual light spectrum. In fact, they don’t even see healthy plants as a food source at all. They literally do not possess the enzymes necessary to digest healthy plants. They choose plants that have a nutritional imbalance of one or more nutrients. While animals prefer healthy plants, insects and diseases prefer the opposite. This is one of the biggest shifts we need to make in our thinking when moving to organic gardening practices, and to me it’s absolutely fascinating. ![]() We tend to think insects and diseases are making our plants unhealthy, but actually, they are there because our plants are unhealthy. What kind of food does an aphid (Aphidoidea) like? What does a disease such as powdery mildew prefer to eat?
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