Data from: Male mating behaviour is shaped by previous experience of both conspecific and heterospecific females in the seed bug Lygaeus simulans

Dataset for the publication: Balfour, V.L., Aumont, C., Corliss, M.K. and Shuker, D.M. (2026). Male mating behaviour is shaped by previous experience of both conspecific and heterospecific females in the seed bug Lygaeus simulans. Ecology and Evolution, 16: e72883. doi: 10.1002/ece3.72883

For full details of the methodology, please refer to the manuscript. Details of what data is provided in each file is explained in the READ ME file (.docx). Raw data are provided in the .xls file, and the data analysed are provided in the .csv files and the provided .R script file contains the code used to analyse the data.

Software required to view the READ ME file is Microsoft word, software to view the .xls and .csv files is Microsoft excel, and R is required to run the analysis.