Many, such as leaf insects, moths, a variety of frogs and small lizards, and herbivorous mammals, are cryptically colored to make them more difficult to see. Behaviorally, they freeze after ...

more maneuverable herbivores like insects. To guard against herbivorous insects, some plants use a layer of plant hairs, or trichomes (Figure 3d). Trichomes are extensions of the epidermis that ...

The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a long-held hypothesis Jack Tamisiea Paleontologist Conrad Labandeira ...

Researchers report on the influence of an endophytic fungus of the genus Cladosporium on the defense of black poplars against herbivorous insects. The fungus, which lives inside the leaves ...

Obviously, this means that plants are always under threat of herbivory by ravenous insects looking for nourishment. Smaller plants, such as grasses, may have hundreds of potential insect threats ...

BENGALURU: A 15-year study in India’s Spiti valley has revealed that replacing wild herbivores like yak and ibex with ...

"We investigated the influence of the endophyte on the chemical defense of black poplars and the consequences for the food preference and fitness of herbivorous insects, as well as the composition ...