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Table 4 Percentages of Trichogrammatoidea bactrae females in parental and F1 generations 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) Parental generation

Temp.

Duration (weeks)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

  4 °C

81.00 ± 0.33Aa

67.5 ± 0.78Cc

62.00 ± 0.46Dc

73.37 ± 0.65Bb

54.5 ± 0.57EFc

50.00 ± 0.00Fc

  7 °C

70.62 ± 1.05Cb

70.50 ± 0.92Cb

72.50 ± 1.29Cb

72.00 ± 0.78Cb

70.00 ± 1.31Cb

66.50 ± 1.94DEb

63.87 ± 0.72Eb

69.50 ± 1.18CDa

77.87 ± 0.29Bb

  10 °C

82.12 ± 1.19Aa

83.37 ± 0.65Aa

80.37 ± 0.71ABa

85.00 ± 1.29Aa

80.00 ± 0.50Aba

80.00 ± 0.73ABa

77.87 ± 0.44CDa

72.00 ± 1.27Ea

80.62 ± 1.00ABa

84.62 ± 0.68A

79.00 ± 0.33BC

77.62 ± 0.91CD

79.87 ± 0.44ABC

78.00 ± 0.00C

79.50 ± 0.42ABC

76.25 ± 0.36D

Control

84.62 ± 0.62A

(b) F1generation

Temp.

Duration (weeks)

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

  4 °C

84.25 ± 0.56Aa

63.12 ± 3.45Bc

50.00 ± 0.00Dc

53.37 ± 0.32Cc

  7 °C

70.50 ± 1.76Bb

70.62 ± 1.19Bb

72.00 ± 1.07Bb

68.50 ± 1.32Cb

70.37 ± 1.27Ba

69.00 ± 1.21BCa

71.00 ± 0.68Bb

69.50 ± 0.73BCb

81.5 ± 1.58Aa

  10 °C

87.12 ± 1.61Aa

84.00 ± 1.67Aa

79.25 ± 0.99Ba

74.75 ± 1.01DEa

69.87 ± 1.34Fa

70.25 ± 1.41Fa

80.00 ± 1.02ABa

77.52 ± 1.03BCa

77.00 ± 2.40BCa

81.00 ± 1.57A

74.62 ± 0.86CD

80.50 ± 1.44AB

76.12 ± 1.64CD

81.25 ± 0.45A

72.87 ± 1.97E

79.75 ± 1.68AB

Control

85.00 ± 0.73A

  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)