Fig 1.
Mortality of Necrodes littoralis at preimaginal stages reared individually (A) and in aggregations (B).
Table 1.
Results of ANOVA for effects of temperature and rearing method on the development duration, length and weight of adult Necrodes littoralis.
Fig 2.
Mean duration of development (A), length (B) and weight (C) of adult Necrodes littoralis reared individually and in aggregations. Duration of development is time in days from the oviposition to the emergence of an adult beetle. Whiskers represent the 0.95 confidence intervals. Different letters denote significant differences in pairwise comparisons at p = 0.05 using Tukey’s HSD test. We used all emerged individuals for the calculations. The total sample size at 16°C, 20°C and 26°C was respectively: 198, 192 and 167 in the protocol with aggregations and 10, 26 and 25 in the protocol with individual rearing.