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Herbivory is generally expected to reduce plant fitness, yet how desert ephemerals respond to low\u2010intensity stem boring remains poorly resolved. We characterised the natural association between the desert ephemeral\n                    <jats:italic>Strigosella scorpioides<\/jats:italic>\n                    and its specialist stem\u2010boring weevil\n                    <jats:italic>Lixus ochraceus<\/jats:italic>\n                    in the Gurbantunggut Desert, northwestern China, combining phenotypic monitoring, tissue nutrient and secondary\u2010metabolite analyses, volatile profiling, behavioural assays and germination trials. Infestation intensity was uniformly low, with each host plant harbouring a single larva. Relative to non\u2010host neighbours, host plants were taller, produced more branches and developed greater leaf area, and attained 2.2\u2010fold greater peak biomass and 2.1\u2010fold greater fruit production, consistent with overcompensation. Host plants contained lower concentrations of three glucosinolates and emitted distinct volatile blends, with a lower proportion of benzyl isothiocyanate and a higher proportion of benzaldehyde; in behavioural assays, females responded to both compounds in a concentration\u2010dependent manner. Seeds from host plants germinated at higher rates under simulated spring snowmelt temperature regimes, although this advantage was temperature\u2010dependent. Together, these results suggest that low\u2010intensity stem boring can coincide with enhanced plant performance and fitness in a highly compressed growing season, and point to plant chemical traits as candidate mediators of plant\u2013herbivore interactions in arid ecosystems. 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