Table 4.

ANOVA on effects of temperature and feeding duration on oocyte number and ovariole length in summer L. oryzophilus females described in Tables 2 and 3

Dependant variables	Source	Females collected in early July			Females collected in mid-July
		df	F	P	df	F	P
No. of stage-I oocytes	T	2	3.457	0.034*	2	1.338	0.264
	FD	2	16.023	0.000*	3	19.722	0.000*
	T×FD	3	2.494	0.062	6	3.213	0.005*
No. of stage-II oocytes	T	2	1.063	0.348	2	0.515	0.598
	FD	2	7.534	0.001*	3	8.683	0.000*
	T×FD	3	0.720	0.541	6	0.496	0.811
No. of mature oocytes	T	2	0.461	0.631	2	0.908	0.404
	FD	2	4.260	0.016*	3	8.459	0.000*
	T×FD	3	2.085	0.104	6	1.248	0.282
Ovariole length	T	2	3.226	0.042*	2	6.888	0.001*
	FD	2	41.966	0.000*	3	44.866	0.000*
	T×FD	3	1.692	0.171	6	2.878	0.010*

T: Temperature; FD: Feeding duration.

^*indicates significant effects of temperature at the level P=0.05