Table 1
Observed matings in five small laboratory populations of six male and five female Chorthippus biguttulus. Within 13 days after their imaginal moult, 17 of 25 individually
labelled females copulated at least once and 10 of them twice or more (up to six) times without interspersed oviposition. Females started to copulate at an age of 4 days. In
eight of the daily observation periods of 62 min, individual females copulated twice or even three times.