#i also saw that the silver dragon plant is non photosynthetic and i saw it and was like Woah

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In the journal Plants, People, Planet, the team published their discovery that camel crickets ate more than half of the fruit and also showed the highest viability rate of the passed seeds. To their surprise, woodlice and earwigs also consumed significant amounts of the seeds and showed a reasonable seed survival rate of over 30%, setting a new record for the respectively smallest and most light-weight animals to partake in dispersing seeds after ingesting them.

Also camel crickets and earwigs!

Even bugs as small as woodlice can disperse seeds they eat, setting a new record for smallest animal recorded to do so. The Kobe University discovery underscores the crucial yet often overlooked role that small invertebrates play in ecosystems. Many plants offer fruit to animals so that they also eat the seeds and deposit them at a farther-off place after they have passed through the animal's digestive tract. For this to work smoothly, plant seeds need to be findable by and attractive to the potential disseminator, robust enough to not be damaged in the process, and small and smooth enough to actually pass through.

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