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How to use polyphagous in a sentence

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Although these fruit flies are polyphagous, they typically show strong seasonal preferences for certain fruits.
While monophagous herbivores were typically found at lower densities in polycultures, polyphagous herbivores showed a more variable response.
The larvae, which normally are polyphagous and hunt several aphid species, live in trees and shrubs.
But as a tropical and polyphagous species, it could present a risk to protected ornamental and vegetable crops.
Control by crop rotation is limited by the polyphagous habit of some races of D. dipsaci and by persistence of the nematode in clay soils.
This highly polyphagous species can cause damage, especially in areas where it has newly been introduced.
Their function as polyphagous predators within orchards was recognized in the 1800's, and several species are known to prey on key tree fruit pests.
Bemisia tabaci: the species is polyphagous, particularly the B biotype which has spread in the greater part of tropical regions.
This polyphagous species is widely distributed in the Palearctic region and appears to have colonized South and North America within the last several decades.
Organism that develops on more than one host, eg, the gypsy moth, a polyphagous caterpillar feeds on both deciduous and coniferous trees.
A danger for many omnivorous or polyphagous species is that potential food items may be poisonous.
The Greenfly is one of the most common pests in our country, as it is a species with a wide variety of genres, some of them attack a single species of plant and others are more polyphagous.
In other countries, A. gossypii is a major pest of cotton and cucurbits, and is also extremely polyphagous attacking a wide range of field and glasshouse crops throughout the world.
Many are restricted to feeding on one species of plant, while others are polyphagous.
Paradoxically, this thrips is not polyphagous in its incursive range.
However, these thripids are polyphagous feeders, breeding in many unrelated plant species.
The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch, is an extremely polyphagous pest.
Two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch, is a polyphagous, parenchyma cell feeding spider mite with over 200 host plant species.
In the polyphagous species, deterrent compounds are less important in the interpretation of information by the central nervous than is true for selective feeders.
It is highly polyphagous and can attack most conifers and hardwoods.
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Another butterfly whose caterpillar is polyphagous, drops hers at random on different plants.
Parasaissetia nigra is polyphagous, feeding on host plants from 80 families, especially on ornamental plants of tropical origin.
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