Warm and cozy: temperature and predation risk interactively affect oviposition site selection

Because reproductive decision making affects all taxa, parents often use environmental cues to optimize their decisions. Although prefertilization decisions (e.g. mate choice) are well studied, postfertilization decisions, such as oviposition site selection (OSS), can also have profound effects on parent and offspring fitness. We used the Texas field cricket, Gryllus texensis, to examine how OSS […]