Effect of Carcass Size on Feeding Modes of Larvae of Nicrophorus quadripunctatus Kraatz (Coleoptera: Silphidae)

Table 1

Analysis of deviance from generalized linear model for the males to participate in the feeding of larvae.

Independent variable	df	Deviance	Resid. df	Resid. Dev	$P$
Frequency of aggressive behaviors by a female against a male	1	0.002	22	29.104	.968
Arrival time of hatchlings on the carcass	1	2.739	23	29.105	.098
Frequency of copulations	1	0.252	24	31.844	.615
Time spent on resource manipulation by females	1	0.003	21	29.1	.954
Time spent on resource manipulation by males	1	15.58	20	13.52	<.0001