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Female burrower bugs (Sehirus cinctus, Hemiptera: Cydnidae) show extended care for their offspring. They guard their clutch and feed the hatched nymphs up to the third larval instar. Previous research indicated that nymphs partly regulate maternal food provisioning, but how nymphs accomplish this is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that nymphs solicit maternal provisioning by condition-dependent...