Fig 1. Experimental workflows of diet preference and nutritional assays.

(A) The workflow of the alkaloid-mediated diet preference assay is depicted on a 7-week timeline. (B) Workflow of ether-soluble lipid quantification of prey items are shown. After the 6–8 day ether step, the arrow points to the drying and weighing steps, as they must be repeated to obtain lipid-free weight. (C) Workflow of the Bradford Protein assay of prey items are shown. Although our experiment used 5 replicates per prey group in lipid and protein assays, only single replicates are depicted here.