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ArticleEcology2025

Live fast, die young? Day- and night-warming affect the growth, survivorship, and behavior of caterpillars in the field.

Louie H Yang, Elizabeth G Postema, Heran Arefaine, Fernanda Y Cohoon, Emma A Deen, Yvonne L Durand, Gwendolyn I Erdosh, Hailey Ma, Courtney N Mausling, Sarah Solís and 1 more

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Article in Ecology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Louie H YangDepartment of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9237-5357
Elizabeth G PostemaDepartment of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-1071
Heran ArefaineDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Fernanda Y CohoonDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Emma A DeenDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Yvonne L DurandDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Gwendolyn I ErdoshDepartment of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Hailey MaDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Courtney N MauslingDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Sarah SolísDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Madeline R WilsonDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California, USA.

Funding

National Science Foundation IOS-2128245
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While both daytime and nighttime temperatures are increasing with climate change, few studies have experimentally investigated their differential effects under field conditions. We conducted a factorial field experiment examining how day- and night-warming impact the growth, survivorship, and behavior of cabbage white caterpillars (Pieris rapae). In this experiment, the night-warming only treatment showed the highest rates of caterpillar growth, but also showed the highest mortality, the shortest maximum caterpillar lengths, the least accumulated herbivory, and reduced pupation. Caterpillars in the treatments that were not warmed during the day showed daytime-shifted growth, and caterpillars in the combined day- and night-warming treatment showed strongly night-shifted herbivory. Both biotic (e.g., predation risk) and abiotic (e.g., thermal) factors could have contributed to these results. Broadly, these results show the importance of temperature-mediated behavioral changes in diel activity for caterpillar development and survival. These results also support the emerging hypotheses that periods of reduced activity may be important for successful development, that warmer nighttime conditions could limit a temporal thermal refuge for caterpillars, and that increasing temperatures could increase the likelihood of metabolic meltdown. This experiment also illustrates the value of field studies to provide insights into how ectotherms might respond to ongoing climate change.

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Behavior, AnimalButterfliesClimate ChangeTemperatureAnimalsLarvaTime Factorsclimate changediel activityectothermshandwarmersheatwavesmetabolic meltdownnight‐warmingnocturnal behaviorPieris rapaetemporal thermal refugesthermal performancethermal stress

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PMID40605538
PMCPMC12223705

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