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Description
Controlled choice experiments measuring butterfly oviposition preference between plant species using matched plant materials in screen cages. Preference quantified as proportion of eggs laid on test plant versus control.
Typical Equipment
- 0.23 × 0.23 × 0.23 m screen cages
- 10-cm-square pots
- florist picks
- filter paper disks
- clear plastic cages
Output Measurements
- oviposition preference
- proportion of eggs on target host
Papers Using This Protocol (19)
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Sensory cues and memory in Lepidopteran mud puddling behavior
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Investigating the potential mechanism behind bumble bee preference for Corydalis flowers inhabited by nectar specialist yeast
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Novel host unmasks heritable variation in plant preference within an insect population
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Does an achromatic border alter color discrimination of male <i> Speyeria mormonia </i> butterflies during mate searching?
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Larval Feeding Ability on a Drought-Stressed Invasive Plant
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Advanced phenology of intraguild predators shifts herbivore host plant preference and performance
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Experience may outweigh cue similarity in maintaining a persistent host plant-based evolutionary trap.
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Experience may outweigh cue similarity in maintaining a persistent host plant-based evolutionary trap.
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Color preference of Speyeria mormonia
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Conflict of interest? Investigating the costs and benefits of herbivore defense using the model plant <i>Boechera stricta</i>
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Aversion and attraction to harmful plant secondary compounds jointly shape the foraging ecology of a specialist herbivore
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Context-dependent reproductive isolation mediated by floral scent and color
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Does Bumble Bee Diet Breadth vary with the Floral Abundance in a Meadow?
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Butterflies show flower colour preferences but not constancy in foraging at four plant species
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Oviposition preference of the leaf mining fly, <i>Scaptomyza nigrita</i> (Drosophilidae) on its native host plant, <i>Cardamine cordifolia</i> (Brassicaceae)
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Butterfly foraging behavior: can butterflies detect nectar in flowering plants?
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Effects of larval energetic resources on life history and adult allocation patterns in a caddisfly (Trichoptera: Phryganeidae)
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Flower preference and constancy in four butterfly species
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