Question

In this scenario you want to test if the evolution of a food preference may reinforce reproductive isolation. You know that you want to measure if golden rain tree bugs and balloon vine bugs prefer fruits from either host plant. Please write a hypothesis based on this.

Answer 1

It is given and we know that if balloon vine bugs and golden rain tree bugs prefer fruits from either host plant. Then the change in the food preference leads to reproductive isolation which is sympatric isolation

There is the ongoing rapid evolution of bugs in relation to the seed defense structures of their host. Rapid evolution in bug populations that feed on recently introduced sapinds is grounded with an ancestral pattern of coevolution between the bugs and the defenses of sapinds.