The data was collected on two days – Thursday, October 15, 2015 and Thursday, October 22, 2015. Data was collected between 3:00 pm and 4:15 pm on both days. The location was at Danby Grassland at York
1. Adapting to a low-quality plant may require modification of an insect's digestive physiology, oviposition behaviour, or other host-use traits. If colonising a marginal host entails a cost, a decay
CTmin = critical thermal minimum in degrees Celsius; ColonyID = identity of the colony from which the individual worker ants were tested; habitat.designation = whether the habitat is "urban" or "rural
Knowing how environmental conditions affect performance traits in pest insects is important to improve pest management strategies. It can be informative for monitoring, but also for control programmes
1. Body size affects rates of most biological and ecological processes, from individual performance to ecosystem function, and is fundamentally linked to organism fitness. Within species, size at matu
