Why do insects like to eat some plants more than others?
13th Nov 2006, 18:39 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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