]>Blow Flies Visiting Decaying Alligators: Is Succession Synchronous or Asynchronous? : Table 5
Table 5: Analysis of variance for five species of blow fly adults over a 10-day period (block) among three sites (main effect), each with a single alligator carcass.
SpeciesMean number of blow flies per day ± SEaFP
Site ASite BSite C
Chrysomya rufifacies 1 2 . 3 ± 4 . 0 1 0 . 8 ± 5 . 5 9 . 9 ± 4 . 3 0.12.889
Cochliomyia macellaria 1 2 . 7 ± 3 . 5 a 5 . 5 ± 2 . 2 b 8 . 9 ± 4 . 0 ab4.35.030
Chrysomya megacephala 8 . 4 ± 2 . 1 3 . 1 ± 1 . 9 7 . 0 ± 1 . 9 2.63.108
Phormia regina 4 . 9 ± 2 . 1 3 . 0 ± 1 . 5 6 . 4 ± 2 . 8 1.28.312
Lucilia coeruleiviridis 5 . 4 ± 2 . 5 2 . 6 ± 0 . 5 8 . 0 ± 0 . 5 2.18.175
aFor significant ANOVA’s (P < .05) means with different letters are significantly different at a family error rate of P = .5.