Mother-Offspring Relations: Prey Quality and Maternal Size Affect Egg Size of an Acariphagous Lady Beetle in Culture
Figure 2
Mean ± SEM egg length versus femur length of combined mothers fed only high quality prey in trials 1 (a) and 2 (b) over combined harvest dates. The regression line defines a significant relationship between mean egg length (Y) versus femur length (X), simple linear regression Y = + X. In trial 1: , 162.6; , 0.6; r 2 = 0.27; n, 18 observations (mothers). In trial 2: , 114.6; , 0.7; r 2 = 0.55; n, 22 observations (mothers). Refer to Table 1 for the ANOVA statistics of each regression analysis.
