“…An early oviposition (egg laying) period under the selection pressures of a specific diet, may result in an increased metabolic rate, as reported in previous investigations [10,21,61,91]. The highest lifetime fecundity (overall oviposition per female) was observed with 10 eggs of P. gossypiella in our study (Table 3), which showed the egg laying potential of O. strigicollis with specific diets, in correlation to previous studies [14,17,18,30,33,49,54,81,92].…”