How much variation is there in the number of eggs laid by different butterflies?
Are the rarer one less productive in the number of eggs? eg what is the difference in egg numbers from things such as the wood white compared to the meadow brown or are the number of eggs laid similar?
Has anyone monitored butterflies, especially the rarer ones to see if the number of eggs they lay has remained consistent over the years of is there a downwards or upward trend?
Do they lay in batches of a few days at a time and then take a break? or do they lay continuously every day until they have finished?
How many times do they mate? Just once that fertilizes the eggs until the end of laying ? or do they mate more than once to keep the eggs fertilized? Or do they batch lay and have to have each batch fertilized?
Please excuse all the questions but I am a poultry keeper - so eggs are something I am always interested in!
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