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Table 6 Percentages of parasitism and adults’ emergence of Trichogrammatoidea bactrae in F1 progeny during storage of parasitoid pre-pupae at different low temperatures

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

Storage period (weeks)

(a) Parasitism %

(b) Adults’ emergence %

4 °C

7 °C

10 °C

4 °C

7 °C

10 °C

Control

92.02 ± 0.92A

95.63 ± 1.24A

1

91.05 ± 0.43Ac

96.58 ± 0.52Aa

93.18 ± 0.40Ab

87.28 ± 0.78Bc

98.32 ± 0.70Aa

95.49 ± 0.30Ab

2

92.26 ± 0.36Ab

96.58 ± 0.56Aa

88.68 ± 1.26BCc

88.84 ± 2.52Bab

94.20 ± 0.85Aa

84.71 ± 2.56Bb

3

82.13 ± 1.19Bc

95.73 ± 0.61Aa

91.21 ± 0.98Ab

96.10 ± 1.13Aab

97.36 ± 1.06Aa

93.82 ± 0.91Ab

4

80.13 ± 0.62BCc

95.57 ± 0.49Aa

87.38 ± 1.05Cb

91.67 ± 0.51Bbc

97.32 ± 0.32Aa

93.88 ± 1.30Ab

5

78.53 ± 0.52Cb

96.94 ± 0.25Aa

90.61 ± 0.51ABa

94.52 ± 0.45Aa

93.71 ± 0.80Aa

96.19 ± 0.64Aa

6

16.44 ± 4.09Dc

81.21 ± 0.94Bb

72.19 ± 1.15Ec

81.74 ± 4.55Cb

87.30 ± 1.37Bb

87.69 ± 1.03Bb

7

82.85 ± 1.08Ba

76.03 ± 1.74Db

93.37 ± 0.63Ab

96.38 ± 0.70Aa

8

70.09 ± 2.03Ca

34.67 ± 3.13Fb

86.60 ± 1.46Bb

93.24 ± 1.01Aa

9

60.23 ± 1.15Da

92.65 ± 0.80A

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