There is an insect that can perform photosynthesis!

This plant-bug freak is called the pea aphid; dismissed by farmers as pests, but a fascinating work of nature. Alain Robichon of the Sophia Agrobiotech Institute in France recent conducted a study on pea aphid. He reported that they use pigments called carotenoids to harvest the sun’s energy and make ATP, a molecule that acts as a store of chemical energy.

The aphids are among the few animals that can perform photosynthesis. They can do this because of the genes that they can steal from fungi through a physical and chemical process called lateral transfer. Green aphids produce the most ATP, orange aphids produce an intermediate amount, and white aphids produce almost none.

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