喷洒杀虫剂导致的植物繁殖力下降是否真的会导致开花植物物种总数的下降，这个问题仍然没有答案。
The question of whether the decrease in plant fecundity caused by the spraying of pesticides actually causes a decline in the overall population of flowering plant species still remains unanswered.
对于那些以前从来没有使用过地植物—不知道它们如何生根、开花、以及笔直地竖在你面前-你会怎么办呢。
What about the plants you had never used before to know about and how they took root, flowered, and bolted up right before your eyes?
他们将毛虫放在不同的烟草植物上，经过8天的观察，通过对比发现35%的植物开花时间调整到了早上，相对没有被啃咬的烟草植物只有11%开花时间在上午。
He put caterpillars on plants that had not been attacked and found that after 8 days, 35% of their flowers opened in the morning--compared with 11% on unmolested plants.
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