Female parasitoid wasps search for insect hosts in which to lay eggs, and they can often discriminate among individual hosts that are more or less suitable for their offspring. Behavioral ecologists have asked whether or not the wasps’ willingness to lay eggs in less suitable hosts varies with the female’s age. On the basis of life history theory, what pattern of change would you predict? Does life history theory make any other predictions about animal behavior?
Based on Life history theory we can predict the female behavior. Which show that older females should be less choosy about hosts in which to lay their eggs. When time to reproduce is running out females should trying to have as many offspring as possible to increase their chance of some surviving instead of waiting for a suitable host and risking death before reproducing .
Optimality theory is an important approach for understanding evaluation of life history adaption is widely used in the study of animal behavior.
Female parasitoid wasps search for insect hosts in which to lay eggs, and they can often...
We conducted a comprehensive literature search on drones in conservation up to October 2nd 2018, in line with related studies [10,11,35]. All searches were done by the same person in English, mainly using Google Scholar. This was further complemented through reference harvesting, citation tracking, abstracts in conference programs, and author search, using Research Gate and Mendeley (see PRISMA Flowchart in Supplementary Figure S1 Checklist and list of studies reviewed in Table S1). We then removed duplicate and unrelated results. Finally,...