Table 5.

Vitamin concentration (mg/kg dry weight) of the caterpillars on dry matter basis (mean ± SE).

Vitamin	G. belina	G. maja	t-value	df	p-value
Vitamin C	122.8 ± 4.72	225.7 ± 3.73	−17.09	4	6.87E-05
Vitamin B1	353.6 ± 8.30	526.2 ± 4.27	−18.49	4	5.03E-05
Nicotinic acid	576.8 ± 10.31	471.1 ± 15.77	5.61	4	0.005
Vitamin B6	549.2 ± 14.27	247.3 ± 12.53	15.90	4	9.15E-05
Vitamin B5	7359.5 ± 118.86	9074.4 ± 215.67	−6.96	4	0.002
Vitamin B9	1097.3 ± 16.97	2180.5 ± 74.71	−14.14	4	1.45E-04
Vitamin B12	18.18 ± 1.11	35.51 ± 1.41	−9.66	4	0.001
Vitamin B2	32.40 ± 1.11	7.0 ± 0.24	22.44	4	2.33E-05
Retinol	0.03 ± 0.00	0.02 ± 0.00	10.22	4	0.001
γ tocopherol	0.07 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.00	3.32	4	0.029
α tocopherol	1.2 ± 0.09	1.2 ± 0.03	−0.16	4	0.882