Ecological Observations of Native Geocoris pallens and G. punctipes Populations in the Great Basin Desert of Southwestern Utah
Figure 8
Use of N. attenuata leaf tissue as a food source by G. pallens. The graph shows the number of G. pallens individuals surviving in clip cages with either a cotton ball soaked with water (water) or water plus an N. attenuata leaf still attached to a living plant (water + leaf). Inset: clip cage on a leaf with a moist cotton ball in the lower right (water + leaf treatment); each half of the cage has a hole covered with netting to permit transpiration (only visible for top half). Asterisks indicate significant differences between treatments obtained by Fisher's exact tests on indicated days, .
