Microbiomes of a specialist caterpillar are consistent across different habitats but also resemble the local soil microbial communities

Here, we examine microbiomes of a monophagous caterpillar (Tyria jacobaeae) collected from their natural host plant (Jacobaea vulgaris) growing in three different environments: coastal dunes, natural grasslands and riverine grasslands, and compare bacterial communities of the caterpillars to those of soil samples collected from underneath each of the host plants from which the caterpillars were collected.