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

Table 2

Effects of crowding (of C. maculata females with or without males) on the mean ± SEM number of eggs laid and cannibalized per cage per day.

Treatment	Eggs laid	Eggs cannibalized
10 females + males	9.2±2.8^a	3.3±1.6^a
10 females	10.3±5.1^a	0.1±0.1^a
20 females + males	9.7±3.4^a	3.1±2.0^a
20 females	9.3±4.3^a	0.5±0.5^a

Means ± SEM followed by the same letter in a column are not significantly different (𝑃>0.05).