Does anti-parasitoid defense explain host-plant selection by a polyphagous caterpillar?

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Feeding by lepidopteran larvae is dangerous: A review of caterpillars’ chemical, physiological, morphological, and behavioral defenses against natural enemies (2012, background): “…parasitoids are not well understood, but one view is that the effects on parasitoids will be similar to that on predators: sequestered compounds will be toxic to parasitoids and act in a dose-dependent manner (e.g., Duffey et al., 1986; Sime, 2002; Singer and Stireman, 2003; Singer et al., 2004).”
ROLES OF FOOD QUALITY AND ENEMY-FREE SPACE IN HOST USE BY A GENERALIST INSECT HERBIVORE (2004, background): “…generalist herbivores, for which the great variation in natural diet allows direct experimental tests of the consequences of different diets for herbivore performance with and without the presence of carnivores (Karban and English-Loeb 1997, Oppenheim and Gould 2002, Singer and Stireman 2003).”
Diet affects the immune defence and life-history traits of an Arctiid moth Parasemia plantaginis (2005, background): “…can make them inedible and provide protection from predators (Rothschild, 1973; Dobler and Rowell-Rahier, 1994; Camara, 1997; Stamp, 2001) and parasitoids (Nieminen et al., 2003; Singer and Stireman, 2003), especially in species that are specialized to plant species that contain harmful substances.”