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 …

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 …

Summary 1 Large female insects usually have high potential fecundity. Therefore selection
should favour an increase in body size given that these females get opportunities to realize …

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 …

Life history theory predicts trade‐offs arising from the costs of reproduction: individuals
investing more into reproduction should have less energy available for their own somatic …

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

Allocation of stored and incoming nutrients to reproduction determines an organism's age‐
specific fecundity curve. In holometabolous insects, differences among species in the shape …

Reproduction exacts a price in terms of decreased survival. Our analysis of the interplay
between age patterns of fecundity and mortality for individual female medflies (Ceratitis …

Recent observations show that some butterfly females lay increasingly smaller eggs over the
oviposition period, eg Pieris rapae (Jones et al. 1982), Euphydryas editha (Murphy et al …