Female Callosobruchus maculatus mate when they are thirsty: resource-rich ejaculates as mating effort in a beetle

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Costly sexual harassment in a beetle (2009, background): “(2006) and Edvardsson (2007) show that females housed continuously with males have a lower lifetime egg production compared with once-mated females that are subsequently isolated from males.”
Female fitness consequences of male harassment and copulation in seed beetles, Callosobruchus maculatus (2009, background): “…maculatus have shown that females suffer fitness costs when they are confined continuously with males (Fox 1993; Crudgington 2001; Rönn et al. 2006; Edvardsson 2007); however, none of these studies examined the direct costs of copulation (e.g. genital wounding; Crudgington & Siva-Jothy 2000) and…”