polyphagous in English

adjective
1
(of an animal) able to feed on various kinds of food.
The two-spotted spider mite and the armyworm S. exigua both are extremely polyphagous herbivores that share many host plant species, have a similar global distribution, and can occur on the same plant species.

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1. Many of the notoriously polyphagous Aphid pests represent sibling species complexes that are

2. Aphid includes all 38 Aphid species in the dichotomous keys to polyphagous Aphids in the three seminal works by Roger Blackman & Victor Eastop (1994, 2000, 2006).

3. A pest Aphid species may affect only a very specific crop, a group of related crop hosts (e.g., crucifers), or may be quite polyphagous within and between plant families

4. In 2018, the California Legislature passed, and the Governor approved AB 2470 (Grayson) which authorized the California Invasive Species Council to develop a plan for the cure or suppression of diseases associated with the spread of Invasive Shot Hole Borers (ISHB), including, but not limited to the Polyphagous and Kuroshio shot hole Borers and allocated $5 million for the execution of the