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Table 2 Average number (±SE), n = 30, of egg masses of Orgyia trigotephras and of eggs per egg mass per plant species and year in Jebel Abderrahmane maquis (Tunisia)

From: Host use in Orgyia trigotephras (Erebidae, Lymantriinae) during outbreak: effects on larval performance and egg predation

  

Year

 

Host species

2005

2009

2014

Egg masses

Pistacia lentiscus

34.2 ± 7.6a

11.2 ± 2.0a

0.3 ± 0.1a

Quercus coccifera

7.4 ± 0.9b

5.6 ± 0.7b

0.6 ± 0.3a

Eggs per egg mass

Pistacia lentiscus

168 ± 9.5a

104.7 ± 7.5a

100.7 ± 1.8a

Quercus coccifera

150.4 ± 14.3a

66.4 ± 7.3b

92.1 ± 1.8b

  1. Within each year, values labeled with different superscript letters are significantly different (P < 0.05)