Table 3.

Number of oocytes and length of ovarioles in summer L. oryzophilus females after a period of feeding on rice at different temperatures: females collected in mid-July 2005

	Feeding days	28 °C	31 °C	34 °C
No. of stage-I oocytes	10	0.0±0.0 b	0.0±0.0 b	0.0±0.0 b
	20	1.4±0.4 aB	2.3±0.5 aAB	3.3±0.4 aA
	30	0.6±0.2 abB	1.8±0.5 aAB	2.8±0.6 aA
	40	1.7±0.4 a	1.1±0.8 ab	0.0±0.0 b
No. of stage-II oocytes	10	0.0±0.0	0.0±0.0 b	0.0±0.0 b
	20	0.3±0.2	0.5±0.2 a	0.6±0.2 a
	30	0.0±0.0	0.2±0.1 ab	0.1±0.0 ab
	40	0.1±0.0	0.0±0.0 ab	0.0±0.0 ab
No. of mature oocytes	10	0.0±0.0	0.0±0.0 b	0.0±0.0
	20	0.3±0.2	1.1±0.4 a	0.7±0.3
	30	0.0±0.0	0.2±0.1 b	0.2±0.2
	40	0.2±0.1	0.0±0.0 b	0.0±0.0
Ovariole length (μm)	10	167.5±2.9 c	155.2±5.2 b	157.0±3.4 c
	20	231.1±13.5 abB	258.1±16.3 aAB	287.2±12.8 aA
	30	198.1±9.9 bcB	254.3±8.1 aA	246.3±6.6 bA
	40	238.2±11.0 a	267.3±21.8 a	263.3±9.0 ab

In a row, means followed by the same uppercase letter were not significantly different (P>0.05); in a column, means followed by the same lowercase letter were not significantly different (P>0.05). Rows or columns without letters indicate no significant difference among means (P>0.05)