Liz Droge-Young, a CRE PhD student, has her recent publication in Behavioral Ecology covered by Syracuse University news
Her research suggests that the desiccating environment of stored grain facilities underlies the evolution of extreme promiscuity by female red flour beetles, with females mating with many males each day in order to harvest moisture from their ejaculates. In something of a sexual conflict twist, all of this mating appears to come at a cost to males – http://news.syr.edu/journal-publishes-doctoral-candidates-findings-on-beetle-promiscuity-60370/