Table 1.

Cumulative reproductive data (mean ± SE) upon dietary restriction in grasshoppers. ShamFD is fully reproductive, fully fed; ShamDR is fully reproductive, dietary restricted. The only consistent effect of DR on reproductive tactics was the reduction in the size of each clutch. Eggs/Clutch is the grand mean of the average number of eggs per clutch for each individual. Time/Clutch is the grand mean of the average time between clutches of eggs for each individual. Melanization is an immune response in which a hardened growth begins to encase the ovaries (Beckage 2008); counts are for presence/absence. LRE is Lifetime Reproductive Effort (Charnov et al. 2007); clutch size, average adult life span, and adult mass were the factors that impacted these scores.

	Number of Eggs	Number of Clutches	Eggs/Clutch	Time/Clutch	Melanization	LRE
ShamFD	440 ± 36.5	9.73 ± 0.58	48.3 ± 1.5	19.0 ± 0.61	19 out of 40	1.9
ShamDR	381 ± 30.8	10.90 ± 0.79	37.4 ± 1.2	20.3 ± 0.65	12 out of 40	2.1
	P = 0.22	P = 0.32	P < 0.001	P = 0.14	P = 0.17