Evidence for Interspecific Brood Parasite Detection and Removal in Burying Beetles
Table 1
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) table for number of successful parasites, proportion of offspring culled, and proportion of parasites compared to the number of conspecific larvae culled. Significant values are bolded.
Response variable
Source
Num df/Den df
Chi-square value
value
Number of successful parasites
Parent species
1/42
5.11
0.0238
Final brood size
1/42
4.91
0.0267
Proportion of offspring culled
Species
1/85
65.63
<.0001
Treatment
1/85
1.32
0.2509
Species treatment
1/85
0.81
0.3682
Proportion of parasites versus conspecific larvae culled
