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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.

Imagine you're an aphid, a tiny insect that sucks plant sap for a living. You're munching away

when a cow comes along to munch on the same plant you're on. You feel its warm breath,

so you drop to the ground to avoid being eaten and run away.

The ground is a scary place for an aphid, but it's better than a cow's mouth.

But if you're an especially small young aphid, also known as a nymph,

scampering over cracks, stones, and twigs is really difficult.

Luckily, young aphids have a solution.

They climb aboard the back of a larger

aphid that's also making an escape

and hitch a ride, cowboy style.

Sometimes there's like a pile of nymphs

at the beginning that climb on the adult.

Sometimes there's even eight or nine nymphs

that all climb on the adult. University there's even eight or nine nymphs that all climb on the adult.

University of Haifa entomologist Moshe Gish.

Thanks to a series of experiments, Gish learned that the nymphs actively seek out adults after dropping to the ground.

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