Assignment Task:
Praying mantis females often eat the males following copulation (similar to the redback spiders). One hypothesis for this behavior in the male mantids is that by doing so, the male benefits because the female can then produce more, larger offspring. These offspring then have better survival and reproductive success. If this hypothesis is true, what is the best prediction? Need Assignment Help? Question options: Females that consume males will have more, larger offspring than females that do not consume males Larger mantids have higher survival rates Males that avoid being eaten during copulation are able to mate with multiple females All of the above A and B only