Why Do Insects Like To Eat Some Plants More Than Others?
14th Nov 2006, 16:46 GMT
Plant-insect ecologists typically attribute the differences to variation in the nutritional quality or defective chemistry of plant tissues. However, the researchers found that cactus-feeding insects chose host plants based on how the plants allocated resources between growth and reproduction.
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