Nectar Meals of a Mosquito-Specialist Spider

Table 2

Intersexual comparisons of the numbers of Evarcha culicivora adults positive for fructose (cold-anthrone testing) after having been left with plants for 24 hours. There were no positive results for 8 of the 11 tested plant species, so these results are omitted.

Plant species	Females positive for fructose; (% positive for fructose)	Males positive for fructose; (% positive for fructose)	χ ^2 Test for independence, 𝛼=0.05
Aloe vera	1 of 40 (2.5%)	0 of 37	χ ^2 = 0.937, P = 0.333 ns
Leonotis nepetaefolia	5 of 35 (14.3%)	1 of 33 (3.0%)	χ ^2 = 2.675, P = 0.102 ns
Ricinus communis	6 of 35 (17.1%)	10 of 48 (20.8%)	χ ^2 = 0.177, P = 0.674 ns