“…In addition to mating, availability of adult food and suitable oviposition substrates enhance egg production in several species of insects, such as crickets, cockroaches, mosquitoes, flies, moths, butterflies, and other species (e.g., Loher et al, 1987;Weston and Miller, 1987;Hendrichs et al, 1993;Hamilton et al, 1990;Cooper and Schal, 1992;Bowen, 1991;Klowden, 1993;Klowden and Chambers, 1991;Venkatesh et al, 1988;Ramaswamy, 1994). For example, Benz (1969) determined that availability of adequate adult nutrition and space and the presence of host twigs resulted in a twofold and sixfold increase, respectively, in numbers of eggs processed and deposited by the moth Zeiraphera diniana.…”