1. Effects of larval reserves and nutrients received as adults on fecundity and lifespan in
female Danaus plexippus (the Monarch Butterfly) were measured to determine the relative …

1 This study first examines the reproductive strategy of female Speyeria mormonia Edwards
(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): 2 Egg weight and number laid per day decrease with age. 3 …

In many insects nutrients transferred by the male at mating are later incorporated into both
the eggs and soma of the mated females. Accordingly, it has been suggested that insect …

In butterflies and other insects, fecundity generally increases with female adult weight.
Hence, most butterflies are essentially" capital breeders", because nutrients acquired during …

Fitness depends not only on resource uptake but also on the allocation of these resources to
various life history functions. This study explores the life-history consequences of larval diet …

Variation in food availability is likely to occur in the wild, and may affect resource allocation
to various life history traits. Quantitative adult diet restriction had no effect on life—span or …

It is a widespread notion that in arthropods female reproductive output is strongly affected by
female size. In butterflies egg size scales positively with female size across species …

A major link between larval ecology and mating systems in butterflies is the environment in
which larvae hatch. It determines when a female should lay her eggs, and therefore when …

Male insects of many species donate nutrients to their females at mating, and the females
can use these nutrients for egg production and somatic maintenance. These male-derived …

The reproductive patterns and resource allocation strategies of three closely related tropical
satyrine butterflies, Mycalesis terminus, M. sirius and M. perseus, were studied under …