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Table 2 Percentages of adults’ emergences of Trichogrammatoidea bactrae in parental generation during storage of parasitoid larvae at different low temperatures

From: Effect of cold storage temperature on quality of the parasitoid, Trichogrammatoidea bactrae Nagaraja (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)

Adults’ emergence %

Temp.

Duration (weeks)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

4 °C

86.75 ± 1.4Bc

71.24 ± 0.95Cc

53.95 ± 6.68Ec

44.59 ± 9.54Fc

61.00 ± 5.31Dc

37.67 ± 2.91Gc

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

7 °C

91.55 ± 1.15Bb

86.52 ± 1.66Cb

86.38 ± 1.98Cb

78.26 ± 1.46Db

73.50 ± 2.05Eb

67.00 ± 2.01GHb

67.84 ± 1.72FGb

66.05 ± 1.18Hb

49.30 ± 2.16Ia

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

10 °C

98.20 ± 0.50Aa

98.81 ± 0.37Aa

95.51 ± 1.09Aa

91.91 ± 1.12Aba

89.67 ± 1.39Ba

87.21 ± 2.05BCa

86.67 ± 1.83BCa

73.13 ± 2.44Da

51.29 ± 3.35FGa

53.28 ± 3.37EF

44.60 ± 2.78H

47.07 ± 4.84GH

33.18 ± 2.15J

24.21 ± 2.45K

34.36 ± 4.62IJ

23.01 ± 2.33K

Control

97.40 ± 0.85AB

  1. Means ± SE sharing the same capital letters in the same row, and same small letters in the columns are statistically insignificant (P ≥ 0.05)