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Agromyzidae
Diptera
Environmental stress
Nutrients
Plant-animal interactions
Plant vigour
Chromatomyia milii
Holcus lanatus.
Intraspecific larval competition
Agromyza-frontella rondani
Leaf-miner
Insect performance
Hypothesis
Herbivores
Responses
Nitrogen
Quality
Diptera.
Entomology/Pest Control in Current Contents(R)/Agricultural,
Biology & Environmental Sciences.
Abstract:
We studied the relationship between plant stress intensity and herbivore response in the grass miner Chromatomyia milii (Kaltenbach) (Diptera: Agromyzidae) on nutrient stressed plants. We subjected the host grass Holcus lanatus (Poaceae) to a range of n