RENO, Nev. - Insects are picky eaters, and not the voracious eat-everything-in-sight bingers that devour all the plants in your garden. After decades of field work from dozens of sites around the ...

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, the ...

A first-of-its-kind study used herbarium specimens to track insect herbivory across more than a century, and found that, across four species -- shagbark hickory (Carya ovata), swamp white oak (Quercus ...

The fossil record of plant–insect interactions offers an exceptional window into the deep-time co-evolutionary dynamics between terrestrial flora and their insect herbivores. Over hundreds of millions ...

Insect herbivore outbreaks viewed through a physiological framework : insights from Orthoptera / Spencer T. Behmer and Anthony Joern -- The dynamical effects of interactions between inducible plant ...

Aim: Latitudinal patterns in bio tic interactions, particularly in herbivory, have been widely debated. We conducted a quantitative research synthesis to test whether background losses of woody plant ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Premise of research. Two previous studies examined the extent of insect herbivory in Early Permian habitats of north-central Texas, with ...

The percentage of leaves with any herbivore damage is greater in the modern ecosystems than in any fossil locality studied, they found. "Our results demonstrate that plants in the modern era are ...