Food limitation leads to risky decision making and to tradeoffs with oviposition

Lay summary Animal behavior can be consistent across contexts and can be influenced by food limitation. If they are food-deprived, crickets make risky decisions when they are exposed to a new environment and when they lay their eggs. Both of these decisions likely increase the chances of a cricket being eaten by a predator, meaning hungry crickets put food ahead of safety and offspring production. Lay summary Animal behavior can be consistent across contexts and can be influenced by food limitation. If they are food-deprived, crickets make risky decisions when they are exposed to a new environment and when they lay their eggs. Both of these decisions likely increase the chances of a cricket being eaten by a predator, meaning hungry crickets put food ahead of safety and offspring production.