Ecological Entomology – 2004 – Messina – How labile are the egg?laying preferences of seed beetles.pdf What does labile/lability mean? Summarize the purpose of this study. What question(

Ecological Entomology – 2004 – Messina – How labile are the egg?laying preferences of seed beetles.pdf
What does labile/lability mean?
Summarize the purpose of this study. What question(s) were the researchers asking and what did they discover?
What does “host shift” mean?
At what temperature (in C) were the beans/beetles maintained?
Why did the researchers give the beetles exactly the same number of the two types of beans rather than equal mass of each type of bean?
Examine Table 2 and Figure 5. What does “Rearing host had a strong and uniform effect on fecundity” mean?
From the discussion: What explanation do the authors provide for why the beetles might prefer adzuki beans over cowpeas?
Write the citation for this article.
After reading this article: if you had access to beetles that had been reared on both mung and cowpeas, and had access to a supply of mung, adzuki, cowpea, black and kidney beans… what type of question might you ask?