Sign in

Madingley Abbs

@bugecologist.bsky.social
76 followers 95 following 2 posts

Behavioural Ecologist. PhD student, University of St Andrews. She/Her. I watch bugs eat each other (research area: evolutionary ecology of sibling cannibalism).

PostsRepliesMedia
Madingley Abbs @bugecologist.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Very excited to see my most recent paper out in Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 🥳. We asked whether the high rate of mating failure in a lygaeid seed bug can be explained by male driven cryptic mate choice. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com
Testing for cryptic male mate choice in an insect with high mating failure - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Post-copulatory sexual selection is an important component of sexual selection. Whilst traditionally studied in terms of sperm competition and cryptic female...
041
Reposted by Madingley Abbs
Benito Wainwright @benitoexplains.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Leaf? 🍃 Or katydid? 🦗 Our new @plosbiology.org paper sheds light on how these incredible mimics evolved their disguises, and what this reveals about how complex adaptations arise. We find that coordinated evolution between traits might be the answer… plos.io/4oUE741 1/n
plos.io
Functional and evolutionary synergy of trait components can explain the existence of leaf masquerade in katydids
The evolution of complex adaptations often involves synergistic changes in multiple traits that lack standalone function. This study shows that leaf masquerade in katydids evolved through concurrent m...
13112
Reposted by Madingley Abbs
Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Size does matter for mating success in two species of seed bugs in the wild. #sexualselection #lygaeidae #mating #naturalselection #malematechoice #sicily doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @opheliasfritsch.bsky.social and Shuker
doi.org
Sexual selection in wild populations of seed bugs: the role of size in pre-copulatory mate choice by females and males
Abstract. Although sexual selection is a well-established part of evolutionary biology, controversies remain about the roles of males and females. For inst
0135