phytophagous in English

adjective
1
(especially of an insect or other invertebrate) feeding on plants.
This possibility [that catnip may be a defensive substance, protecting the plant against phytophagous insects] was investigated by a series of simple experiments.
adjective
    plant-eating

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1. The invention relates to a method for protecting crop plants from phytophagous Acari.

2. Coleopterans mainly include coprophagous and phytophagous lineages, and many species of the latter lineage are serious pests

3. Compared with omnivorous pheasants,[sentencedict .com] insectivorous birds and raptorial birds Koklass's digestive system is similar to the typical phytophagous birds.

4. Acarina for Biological Control of Phytophagous Mites (Ixodidae) Dermacentor variabilis (Say), American dog tick.-- This species is widely distributed in the U.S

5. There are lots of factors causing infestation of phytophagous pests and changes of dominate species in the apple orchards.

6. Species richness of phytophagous insects in plantation of transgenic insect-resistance hybrid poplar 741 was obviously lower than that of neutral arthropod.

7. Currently, Acaricides are necessary for the management of phytophagous mite popula­tions that can devastate many horticultural, ornamental, and agronomic crops

8. Total trend presented that the effluence of the same herbicides on ground community was more than that on plant, and phytophagous arthropod sub-community was more than that of predatory sub-community.

9. ‘The Cambrian Explosion, for example, is the first time we are able to distinguish a chordate from an Arthropod.’ ‘It is the cuticle that suggests rotifers are close relatives of roundworms and Arthropods.’ ‘It is of interest that a plant native to Eurasia would host such substantial numbers of phytophagous Arthropods in North America.’