Many plants provide food (food bodies or extra-floral nectar) and/or shelter (hollow stems, petioles , or thorns) to ants, wasps and other predators and parasites in return for protection from plant-feeding animals ( herbivores ).
(Many plants; provide; food; to ants, wasps and other predators and parasites)
Many plants
provide
food to ants, wasps and other predators and parasites