Figure 1: Winter moth life cycle. Adult winter moths emerge in Novem-
ber/December and shortly after mating brachypterous females crawl up
trees to lay eggs. Eggs hatch in early spring, and larvae feed on young
foliage until late May when they descend to the ground on silken threads
to burrow into the soil and pupate. Pupation lasts until winter, when
adults emerge and the life cycle begins again. Solid black arrows indi-
cate the duration of each development stage and blue dashed arrows
indicate the temporal variability of each stage.
Figure 3: The effect of temperature treatment on pupal development
time. Each coloured point represents the number of days between the
start of the experiment (used as a proxy for pupation date) and the
emergence date of an individual adult moth. Horizontal bars indicate
treatment means and the dashed vertical line separates the experi-
mental treatments from the ambient.
Figure 5: The effect of temperature treatment on egg development
time. Each coloured point represents the number of days between the
first egg-laying event and half-hatch date of each subclutch. Horizontal
bars indicate treatment means and the dashed vertical line separates
the experimental treatments from the ambient.
Figure 6: The effect of maternal emergence date on offspring’s egg
development time. Points represent subclutches so those aligned in the
x-axis are from the same mother. Lines show the model prediction with
a 95% confidence interval represented by the shaded ribbon. Both are
coloured by egg temperature treatment.
New preprint (part of a programme to understand resilience of the tritrophic tree-insect-bird system to varying climate). We (led by @siennarattigan.bsky.social - her MBiol project) show how temperature in development can carry-over to affect timing at later stages
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
