iv) A focused assessment in a single community
Pooling data from multiple Heliconiini populations across a broad geographical range has the potential to skew host plant use data. Therefore, we repeated our analyses on a less species-diverse, localised population of Heliconiini with an extensive history of ecological study. Using these data, we found no interaction between larval social behaviour and the number of different Passiflora species they feed on (P-mean = -0.925, 95% CI -2.673 – 0.637,PMCMC = 0.261). However, we support our finding of a lack of interaction between specific host plant traits and larval behaviour (Table A4), however we did again observe that hosts which grow in forest edge habitats tend to be more frequently used by larvae (P-mean = 0.931, 95% CI 0.225 – 1.621, PMCMC = 0.027, Table A4).