Predation costs associated with parental care in the golden egg bug Phyllomorpha laciniata (Heteroptera: Coreidae)

Reguera, Piedad

doi:10.1093/beheco/10.5.541

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“…if males were trading off longevity against parental ability, which is more likely if guarding males attract a higher degree of competition over mates; see 'brood takeovers' below). Neither were survival costs of egg-carrying detected using more complicated multistate models in waterbugs (MunguiaSteyer & Macias-Ordonez, 2007), although this behaviour has been shown under laboratory conditions to incur predation costs in a terrestrial bug species that also carries some eggs attached to the body (Reguera & Gomendio, 1999).…”

Section: Survival Costsmentioning

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Quantifying the benefits and costs of parental care in assassin bugs

Gilbert

Thomas

Manica

2010

Ecological Entomology

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1. Which sex should care for offspring depends on the cost and benefits of the behaviour for each sex. Understanding these differences between the sexes is a fundamental step to explain the evolution of animal societies, but it is often difficult to quantify them empirically. A possible approach is to investigate two closely related species that perform a very similar type of care but in which the caring sex differs.2. Using field and laboratory data, we estimated the benefits and costs of parental care in two species of assassin bugs with very similar ecologies: Rhinocoris tristis, which has exclusive paternal care, and Rhinocoris carmelita, which has exclusive maternal care.3. In both species, the main benefit of care was a reduction in parasitism and predation of eggs. Guarding R. tristis males consumed eggs (filial cannibalism), and thus managed not to lose weight, but R. carmelita females paid the full energetic cost of care. Guarding male R. tristis incurred survival costs relative to non-guarding male and female conspecifics.4. Very high population density and female preference for males already guarding eggs (a preference previously recorded in fish) minimised the promiscuity cost of paternal care in R. tristis, explaining the difference in care pattern between the two species.

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Section: Survival Costsmentioning

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Quantifying the benefits and costs of parental care in assassin bugs

Gilbert

Thomas

Manica

2010

Ecological Entomology

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“…Benefits for offspring tend to be fairly obvious and easy to measure, while the costs to parents have proven more difficult to discern and quantify (Reguera and Gomendio 1999). The costs derived from parental care can be classified into two categories: reproductive costs, involving either loss of mating opportunities, reduction in future fecundity or future offspring number; and survival costs involving increased susceptibility of the parent to predators or pathogens (Shine 1988).…”

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Costs of egg caring in the skink, Mabuya longicaudata

Huang

2006

Ecological Research

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Why do most animal species not provide parental care to their eggs or progeny? The “cost” hypothesis suggests that parental care can reduce food intake, probable survivorship, and/or subsequent fecundity of the reproductive female, and parental care is not adaptive unless it is balanced by considerable fitness trade‐offs. Therefore, parental care would be expected to evolve most often in species in which such costs are minor or insignificant. Although parental care has been reported in more than 140 species of reptiles, few records unambiguously demonstrate the cost of parental care. In the current study, I report the “costs” of maternal activities and survivorship, as well as egg attendance times, and within‐ and between‐seasonal body size variations, of females of Mabuya longicaudata after engaging in parental care. I used those data to test whether parental care necessarily entailed large costs to mother lizards. The proportion of nests guarded decreased with time after eggs were laid, with most females remaining at the nest for at least 1 week, but then some beginning to leave. The loss of mass by females over the first week of egg guarding was on average balanced by a gain in mass during subsequent foraging bouts. The snout–vent length (SVL), body mass (BM), recapture (survival) rates, fecundity, timing of a second clutch, and clutch frequencies of females that exhibited long‐term parental care (more than 28 days; mean, 31.6 ± 2.2 days) did not significantly differ from that of females that showed short‐term parental care (9∼16 days; mean, 12.5 ± 2.3 days). Thus, my data indicate that intense parental care over a long period does not necessarily entail major energy costs for the mother in terms of SVL, BM, recapture (survival) rates, or fecundity.

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“…Females of Phyllomorpha laciniata (Villers) may choose to place eggs on leaves of the host plant or on the backs of males. Such oviposition blocks wing movement so that individuals carrying eggs cannot fl y and are subject to higher predation (Reguera and Gomendio 1999 ). Paternal care was found to be higher in a population subjected to heavy egg parasitism; eggs laid on males suffered less parasitism than those laid on plants (Gomendio et al 2008 ).…”

Section: Eggs and Ovipositionmentioning

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Leaf-Footed Bugs (Coreidae)

Fernandes

Mitchell

Livermore

et al. 2015

Entomology in Focus

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The family Coreidae is distributed worldwide, but these phytophagous bugs are most abundant in the tropics and subtropics. In the Neotropical region, all of the subfamilies and 16 tribes are represented. In tropical ecosystems, these bugs feed on herbs and shrubs in open areas of forests as well as at the forest edge. Some species are spectacularly colored, and unusual expansions of antennae, humeral angles, femora, or tibiae occur in many groups. Some of them move lazily even when disturbed and hardly fl y to escape; others are extremely nimble, fast fl ying away when disturbed. They are frequently encountered in crops, representing important pests in several commodities. No one common name is universally accepted for the family, and none of the frequently used names (e.g., squash bug, leatherbug, leaf-footed bug, Randwanzen) are collectively appropriate for all members of the family.

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Predation costs associated with parental care in the golden egg bug Phyllomorpha laciniata (Heteroptera: Coreidae)

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Quantifying the benefits and costs of parental care in assassin bugs

Quantifying the benefits and costs of parental care in assassin bugs

Costs of egg caring in the skink, Mabuya longicaudata

Leaf-Footed Bugs (Coreidae)

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