A System for Harvesting Eggs from the Pink-Spotted Lady Beetle

Table 1

Effects of crowding (of C. maculata females with males) on the mean ± SEM number of eggs laid and cannibalized per cage per day.

Treatment	Eggs laid	Eggs cannibalized
10 females + males	24.3±5.8^a	2.6±1.3^ab
25 females + males	10.4±4.5^ab	3.2±1.4^a
50 females + males	6.5±3.9^b	0.6±0.6^ab
100 females + males	1.7±1.6^b	0^b

Means ± SEM followed by a different letter in a column are significantly different (𝑃<0.05).