Evening Primrose in Ithaca, N.Y. (IMAGE)

U.S. National Science Foundation

Evening Primrose in Ithaca, N.Y.

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This is a large natural population of evening primrose (yellow), which is a common plant in eastern North America. Agrawal's team set up 16 identical plots. During each growing season for five years, eight of the plots were treated biweekly with an insecticide; the other eight were controls.

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Anurag Agrawal

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