Blow Flies Visiting Decaying Alligators: Is Succession Synchronous or Asynchronous?

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.

Species	Mean number of blow flies per day ± SE^a			F	P
	Site A	Site B	Site C
Chrysomya rufifacies	12.3±4.0	10.8±5.5	9.9±4.3	0.12	.889
Cochliomyia macellaria	12.7±3.5a	5.5±2.2b	8.9±4.0ab	4.35	.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.