Toxicity of Nanoparticles against Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Table 6

Egg-laying deterrent of the silver and sulfur nanoparticles of plant origin at different concentrations to Drosophila melanogaster.

Nanoparticle	Plant	Mean number of larvae				Total mean number of larvae^1 per treatment
		Concentration (ppm)
		10	50	100	200
Silver (Ag)	Fig	3.7a	3.7a	2.3a	0.3a	2.5a
	Loquat	12.3c	12.7c	12.3c	10.3c	11.9d
	Mulberry	9.0b	9.0b	7.7b	10.0c	8.9c
	Olive	8.3b	8.0b	7.0b	4.7b	7.0b
	Pistachio	17.3d	16.7d	15.3d	16.0d	16.3e
Sulfur (S)	Citrus	13.7c	13.0c	12.0c	11.7c	12.6d
Control (water)						20.2f
LSD		2.13				1.30

Values followed by the same letter within a row are not significantly different ().
¹Values followed by the same letter within a column are not significantly different ().