Table 4.

Mean and standard deviation for the different parameters, according to the age of the exposed egg mass. Significant differences verified with the Kruskal–Wallis test (H) and a post hoc Dunn’s test with Bonferroni correction, where letters indicate significant differences (p < 0.05).

Parameter	Age (days)	H	df	p-Value	Irradiated	Refrigerated	SIT
					Mean ± sd 1	Mean ± sd 1	Mean ± sd 1
Proportion of emergence	1	17.591	2	<0.001	84.28 ± 27.9 b	77.85 ± 27 c	93.23 ± 20.12 a
	4	4.464	2	0.107	91.39 ± 25.49	90.66 ± 14.58	93.90 ± 9.45
	7	5.777	2	0.056	88.86 ± 21.23	88.58 ± 20.84	91.93 ± 23.4
	10	15.244	2	<0.001	76.36 ± 34.38 b	79.13 ± 27.51 b	94.03 ± 18.23 a
	15	19.226	2	<0.001	65.96 ± 32.1 b	42.9 ± 35.9 c	83.12 ± 19.82 a
	20	25.284	2	<0.001	44.68 ± 24.9 b	37.57 ± 27.49 b	75.56 ± 30.25 a
Sex ratio	1	13.791	2	0.001	81.66 ± 24.06 b	78.48 ± 18.15 c	88.34 ± 19.95 a
	4	2.460	2	0.292	84.20 ± 25.95	81.45 ± 25.15	89.25 ± 10.45
	7	7.664	2	0.022	84.11 ± 20.44	84.15 ± 17.19	87.61 ± 22.79
	10	19.095	2	<0.001	61.79 ± 38.59 c	73.82 ± 26.47 b	91.95 ± 5.28 a
	15	4.210	2	0.122	60.37 ± 31.42 b	53.85 ± 28.8 b	68.56 ± 32.45 a
	20	24.839	2	<0.001	40.55 ± 21.95 b	39.67 ± 23.26 b	73.45 ± 26.61 a
Fecundity—0 days	1	3.748	2	0.154	28.82 ± 4.19	26.14 ± 1.66	26.58 ± 3.36
	4	1.851	2	0.396	27.7 ± 2.99	26.31 ± 2.92	27.12 ± 3.60
	7	7.726	2	0.021	23.5 ± 5.43 b	28.95 ± 3.33 a	28.15 ± 3.52 a
	10	3.520	2	0.172	28.5 ± 3.03	26.48 ± 3.65	28.78 ± 2.97
	15	12.207	2	0.002	23.59 ± 4.58 b	26.36 ± 1.96 ab	28.35 ± 2.31 a
	20	24.363	2	<0.001	22.43 ± 1.79 b	27.47 ± 2.07 a	26.75 ± 2.63 a
Fecundity—12 days	1	2.283	2	0.319	53.78 ± 3.38	55.78 ± 3.28	55.21 ± 4.24
	4	2.556	2	0.279	53.89 ± 4.19 b	56.33 ± 3.2 a	55.96 ± 4.28 ab
	7	16.595	2	<0.001	49.5 ± 3.67 b	53.63 ± 3.52 b	56.29 ± 3.11 a
	10	2.492	2	0.288	53.06 ± 3.25	52.78 ± 3.08	55 ± 4.22
	15	17.751	2	<0.001	49 ± 3.14 b	53.75 ± 3.72 a	56.63 ± 3.89 a
	20	5.646	2	0.059	50.83 ± 1.8 ab	46.53 ± 8.64 b	53.25 ± 3.05 a
Dry weight	1	7.499	2	0.024	116.57 ± 11.98 a	108 ± 5.87 b	115.98 ± 8.04 a
	4	10.717	2	0.005	107.59 ± 5.65 b	113.41 ± 6.22 a	112.65 ± 8.96 a
	7	14.239	2	0.001	107.87 ± 7.57 b	111.65 ± 4.51 ab	115.68 ± 5.89 a
	10	7.715	2	0.021	108.54 ± 7.56 ab	107.26 ± 9.6 b	113.6 ± 8.12 a
	15	21.866	2	<0.001	101.57 ± 7.77 b	115.25 ± 13.13 a	112.12 ± 7.85 a
	20	14.879	2	0.001	104.57 ± 8.65 b	106.51 ± 4.83 b	112.64 ± 5.23 a
Longevity	1	2.898	2	0.235	115.75 ± 44.54	93.41 ± 55.16	106.2 ± 44.26
	4	1.504	2	0.471	109 ± 48.67	97.84 ± 39.43	96.21 ± 43.19
	7	6.399	2	0.041	133.64 ± 36.1 a	121.67 ± 39.51 ab	105.5 ± 49.97 b
	10	1.539	2	0.463	107.67 ± 53.8	107.35 ± 34.85	116.24 ± 40.19
	15	4.877	2	0.087	104.9 ± 39.58	74.58 ± 50.52	101.65 ± 39.3
	20	11.127	2	0.004	120.46 ± 41.53 a	78.9 ± 45.54 b	103.22 ± 43.8 ab

¹ Different letters indicate significant differences in the same row.