Would Mothers Relax Their Degree of Selectivity for Supports Suitable for Egg-Laying When the Local Density of Conspecific Females Increases? A Case Study with Three Common Lepidopteran Leaf Miners

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The leaf-acceptance ratio 𝛼 plotted against the average number of mothers visits per leaf 𝜇 for three species of leaf-mining moths on woody dicots: Phyllonorycter esperella, Phyllonorycter maestingella, and Tischeria ekebladella.