Table 1.

Feeding rate (crickets/day) for adults and juveniles

Treatment	Feeding rate (mean ± SE)
	Adults	Juveniles
Male intact (M-CON)	3 ± 0	–
Male castrate (M-CAST)	2.87 ± 0.04	1.98 ± 0.08
Male T (M-TEST)	2.92 ± 0.03	1.84 ± 0.09
Female intact (F-CON)	2.99 ± 0.01	2.84 ± 0.05
Female T (F-TEST)	2.99 ± 0.01	2.07 ± 0.05

Adults: feeding rate was unaffected by treatments or sex and nearly the same in all groups. Juveniles: feeding rate was reduced by T in both sexes and lower in males than in females; the effect of T was greater in females than in males. Sample sizes: n = 9 in all adult groups and both juvenile male groups, n = 10 in juvenile female groups. See Results section “Juveniles” under the heading Growth and food consumption for details of statistical analyses. NB: feeding rate is not directly comparable between adults and juveniles because different-sized crickets were fed to the two age classes.