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Male/female individuals of the red cotton bug,Dysdercus koenigii (Fabr.) in a given population, when provided equal mating opportunities, exhibit interesting variability in their mating trends with more coitions occurring between sexes comprising 3- and 5-day old adults. Mating between females ingesting cotton leaf and cotton seed-fed males is a futile sexual exercise in this bug’s reproductive programme yielding no output of fertile eggs. However, in a vice versa situation, the mateds deposit viable eggs the proportion of which, following a second mating with seed-fed males, gets appreciably augmented in the subsequent egg batch.
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Shahi, K.P., Krishna, S.S. Effect of certain experimental regimens on mating behaviour and the impact of nutritional difference between copulating males and females on the reproductive programming inDysdercus koenigii (Fabr.) (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae). Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Anim. Sci.) 95, 677–683 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03179481
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