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the leaf miner.
* Leaf variegation: Plants can sometimes evolve to use leaf variegation in order to mimic leaf miner damage, this then makes the plant less appealing to leaf mining insects that seek a healthy host plant to desposit their eggs. It is believed that some patterns of leaf variegation are adaptations used by plants to deceive adult leaf miners into mistaking the variegated leaf as one that is already hosting a larval leaf miner. The plant species Caladium steudnerifolium

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