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Table 3 Percentages of parasitism and adult emergence rates of Trichogrammatoidea bactrae in F1 progeny 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)

(a) Parasitism %

Temp.

Duration (weeks)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

  4 °C

80.65 ± 1.16Cb

91.17 ± 0.79Ab

21.14 ± 3.03Ec

45.19 ± 3.71Dc

  7 °C

95.28 ± 0.66Aa

95.31 ± 0.49Aa

97.65 ± 0.28Aa

96.78 ± 0.32Aa

93.81 ± 0.47Aa

89.21 ± 1.18ABa

88.82 ± 0.88Bb

67.93 ± 2.39Ca

38.56 ± 2.4Db

  10 °C

82.09 ± 0.98Db

90.04 ± 1.11Ab

86.24 ± 1.30BCb

88.27 ± 0.90ABb

86.98 ± 2.48BCb

87.47 ± 0.57ABa

91.00 ± 0.38Aa

63.47 ± 0.90Fa

54.34 ± 1.39HIa

88.63 ± 1.17AB

78.59 ± 2.01E

83.39 ± 1.15D

57.04 ± 4.38G

41.53 ± 3.73J

52.99 ± 2.71I

13.06 ± 2.45K

Control

91.36 ± 1.36AB

(b) Adults’ emergence %

Temp.

Duration (weeks)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

  4 °C

83.91 ± 2.86Cb

96.74 ± 0.59Aa

97.83 ± 0.49Aa

97.44 ± 0.72Aa

  7 °C

91.68 ± 0.72ABa

96.94 ± 0.42Aa

93.95 ± 1.01Ab

88.76 ± 1.21Bc

94.35 ± 0.51Ab

95.16 ± 0.66Aa

93.17 ± 1.41Ab

94.20 ± 0.63Ab

88.28 ± 1.06Bb

  10 °C

80.87 ± 1.71Fb

78.00 ± 2.58FGb

85.56 ± 1.57Dc

95.39 ± 0.37Ab

97.33 ± 0.56Aa

93.72 ± 0.73Aa

97.81 ± 0.62Aa

96.16 ± 0.39Aa

95.21 ± 0.83Aa

88.92 ± 1.38BC

81.64 ± 1.11EF

78.68 ± 1.17FG

93.43 ± 2.01AB

90.26 ± 1.27AB

92.42 ± 0.99AB

86.98 ± 2.93CD

Control

96.79 ± 0.75AB

  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)