… of no comparable study of E/W relationships among insect species. Here our specific aims
were to examine the allometry of egg size in insect pests of stored products and to test three a …

… size (a major determinant of the total amount of capital resources derived from larval feeding
and that are allocatable to either reproduction … insects in relation to reproductive strategy and…

… egg number is not correlated with body size. In the central range of body size, egg weight is
also not correlated with body size… the set of reproductive strategies available to insects at the …

… We do not know enough about the comparative aspects of reproductive effort and flight
requirements in insects to determine the nature of these constraints (Wickman and Karlsson 1989…

… advantage over smaller males that may have to adopt alternative mating strategies to …
the size distribution during the spring reproductive season. Because the egg laying (reproductive) …

… The recent work on insect clutch size assumes that egg size is … between clutch size and egg
size; for a given reproductive … that the optimal allocation between egg size and number may …

… is expected to lead to reproductive strategies that approach, … decline in reproductive effort,
relative to body size. However, … egg load, egg size and biomass (rather than body size per se…

… may also affect clutch size (laying eggs singly vs. as clusters of various sizes), and hence …
, universal, and critical element of reproductive allocation for holometabolous insects. …

… of egg tubes (ovarioles), egg size and rate of production, and developmental time for ladybird
beetles of different sizes. In … in insect predators. In Genetics, Evolution and Coordination of …

… future reproduction, to the evolution of reproductive strategies. There is widespread agreement
that Williams’ thesis explains selective oviposition in insects… the maximum length normally …