This table contains 37 years of demographic data for 12 sites. The trap record for each animal for each year the animal was present includes age, sex, locality, and reproductive status. Also included, when known, are changes in location, fate (predation death, dispersed), and genetic information (al

Abstract. 1. Mating patterns in a natural population of checkerspot butterflies, Euphydryas editha Boisduval, were investigated by dusting male external genitalia with fluorescent dyes and examining mated females under UV light. 2. These dyes may have diverse applications in studies of insect popula

ABSTRACT Male mating success as a function of genotype is an important fitness component. It can be studied in wild populations, in species for which a given group of progeny has exactly one father, by determining genotypes of wild-caught mothers and of sufficient numbers of their progeny. Here, we

In all of 16 experimental replicates discrimination against albinos was reduced or eliminated after painting, and albino handling times declined toward values for blue-flowered inflorescences, indicating that an inferior nectar guide increases the energetic cost of foraging at albino.

For a brief period in 1981 Bombus appositus queens visited Ipomopsis aggregata, a hummingbird-pollinated species with floral characteristics typical of that pollination syndrome. This behavior was not observed in other years. Despite the fact that Ipomopsis lacks floral features associated with bee

Behavioral experiments were carried out in flow-through observation boxes in New York and Colorado streams to determine whether interactions between pairs of predaceous stoneflies were characterized by exploitative or interference competition and to determine the effect of prey density on such inter

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 she will be receptive to mating. The fitness of males is determined chiefly by access to fertilizable females, and there

Model and experimental results suggest that, in certain wing regions, increased melanization can reduce body temperature in Pieris; this effect of melanization is exactly the opposite of that found in other Pierid butterflies that use their wings as solar absorbers.

Results show that Pieris require thoracic temperature in order to take off and fly, and achieve these elevated temperatures by basking, and suggest that a re-evaluation of the functional significance of melanization in Pieris is needed.

The relative importance of adult–yearling interaction and individual behavioral phenotypes on dispersal of yearling yellow-bellied marmots was investigated. Two marmot colonies near Gothic, Colorado, were studied; one was treated as an experimental colony from which all adults were removed, while th

Numerous mountain watersheds in the Colorado Mineral Belt (CMB) are impacted by acid rock drainage (ARD) and acid mine drainage (AMD), which mobilize metals and rare earth elements (REEs) into surface waters. In the upper Roaring Fork watershed near Independence Pass, natural ARD from a highly miner