Nectar Meals of a Mosquito-Specialist Spider

Table 3

Number of Evarcha culicivora (juveniles and pooled data for adult females and males) that were positive for fructose (cold-anthrone testing) after being left with plants for 24 hours. Ranked from highest to lowest percentage positive for juveniles.

Plant species	Juveniles positive for fructose; (% positive for fructose)	Adults positive for fructose; (% positive for fructose)	χ ^2 Test for independence, 𝛼=0.05
Lantana montevideo	39 of 45 (86.7%)	0 of 29	χ ^2 = 53.139, P < 0.001
Lantana camara	155 of 195 (79.5%)	0 of 109	χ ^2 = 176.771, P < 0.001
Clerodendron magnifica	43 of 62 (69.3%)	0 of 31	χ ^2 = 39.990, P < 0.001
Striga asiatica	26 of 43 (60.5%)	0 of 25	χ ^2 = 24.474, P < 0.001
Ricinus communis	85 of 140 (60.7%)	16 of 83 (19.3%)	χ ^2 = 36.106, P < 0.001
Leonotis nepetaefolia	44 of 81 (54.3%)	4 of 68 (5.9%)	χ ^2 = 39.719, P < 0.001
Verbena trivernia	75 of 149 (50.3%)	0 of 24	χ ^2 = 21.326, P < 0.001
Senna didymobotrya	38 of 77 (49.3%)	0 of 61	χ ^2 = 41.543, P < 0.001
Aloe vera	68 of 184 (37.0%)	1 of 77 (1.3%)	χ ^2 = 35.490, P < 0.001
Parthenium hysterophorus	51 of 154 (33.6%)	0 of 89	χ ^2 = 37.303, P < 0.001
Hamelia patens	26 of 85 (30.6%)	0 of 26	χ ^2 = 10.386, P = 0.001