Hot summers, long life: egg laying strategies of Maniola butterflies are affected by geographic provenance rather than adult diet

Maniola butterflies undergo summer dormancy in dry and hot habitats and deposit their eggs only in early autumn when conditions become more favourable for their offspring. Female individuals of this genus are therefore relatively long-lived. For long-lived butterflies adult diet is of particular imp...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Contributions to zoology (Amsterdam, Netherlands : 1995) Netherlands : 1995), 2013-01, Vol.82 (1), p.27-36
Hauptverfasser:	Grill, Andrea, Cerny, Andrea, Fiedler, Konrad
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	butterfly ecology longevity Maniola nectar amino acids Nymphalidae oviposition summer dormancy
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