Effect of Plant Characteristics and Within-Plant Distribution of Prey on Colonization Efficiency of Cryptolaemus montrouzieri (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Adults

Table 1

Mean (±SD) number of P. longispinus on the upper and lower parts of three different plants. Note that there were no significant differences within columns.

Plant species	Upper part of plant	Lower part of plant
Ficus elastica	415±264.5a^∗	110±93.2b
Lilium longiflorum	564±172.4a	51±26.8b
Dieffenbachia seguine	441±154.1a	51±40.4b

*Means within rows followed by the same letter are not significantly different (F test, 𝑃<0.05).