11. He ate leaves for months and went without water for days at a time on the journey that would eventually bring him to America. 12. In areas of South Texas, some ranchers are cutting down hackberry trees so cattle can eat the leaves. 13. My greatest problem has been a green worm eating the leaves, but my plants usually survive despite that. 14. Or that ducks are an asset in the vineyard because they eat the snails that eat vine leaves? 15. Plants whose leaves are eaten need less sunshine than those that use their leaves to convert sunshine into something else. 16. Tent caterpillars often produce webs where limbs join the trunk, and the larvae crawl out and eat the leaves. 17. The caterpillars eat the leaves within the webs, and as the foliage disappears, the caterpillars enlarge the web to encase more leaves. 18. The chemicals may further discourage exploding populations of deer from eating the leaves in summer, when browsing does the most damage to trees. 19. These hatch into caterpillars that eat the leaves, but the foliage grows back in short order. 20. They love peanut butter and banana sandwiches but will also eat kudzu leaves. |