phytophagous

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of animals) feeding on plants
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How To Use phytophagous In A Sentence

  • Same with lignivorous/xylophagous, herbivorous/phytophagous, and of course carnivorous/sarcophagous. Languagehat.com: VEGAN.
  • The larva and diet of phytophagous coccinellids indicate that that they are the most ancestral group of Coccinellidae evolving from ancestors like chrysomelids.
  • Same with lignivorous/xylophagous, herbivorous/phytophagous, and of course carnivorous/sarcophagous. Languagehat.com: VEGAN.
  • There are lots of factors causing infestation of phytophagous pests and changes of dominate species in the apple orchards.
  • It is of interest that a plant native to Eurasia would host such substantial numbers of phytophagous arthropods in North America.
  • The family Anthomyiidae (Insecta: Diptera) is a globally distributed group of phytophagous, saprophagous, or coprophagous flies with over 1500 described species worldwide.
  • As important as behavioral and physiological alterations are as a means of circumventing toxins, direct metabolic detoxication is arguably the strategy which is the most effective and most commonly employed by phytophagous insects.
  • Trade-offs exist when two physiological demands are limited by the same resource (e.g., protein in phytophagous insects).
  • Adults and larvae of most species are facultative predators, but some are specialist predators, some are mycophagous or saprophagous or even phytophagous, occasionally damaging flowers and turf.
  • It is of interest that a plant native to Eurasia would host such substantial numbers of phytophagous arthropods in North America.
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