Table 1. Life cycle and body size of B. xylophilus (YB-1 isolate).

											Adult
	Egg	Egg (J1)	Molting	Egg (J2)	J2	J2 molting	J3	J3 molting	J4	J4 molting	F*	M†
Time (h)	0	17	20	22	25 (±1.0)	44 (±1.0)	47 (±1.0)	57 (±1.0)	60 (±1.0)	70 (±2.0)	74 (±2.0)	74 (±2.0)
length (µM)	54.7 (±0.4)	59.5 (±0.6)	59.6 (±0.5)	60.1 (±0.7)	186.4 (±19.4)	248.4 (±5.1)	405.6 (±15.2)	450.2 (±7.2)	610.4 (±50.1)	711.7 (±35.1)	1015.2 (±102.1)	890.4 (±98.2)
width (µM)	22.1 (±0.4)	24.3 (±0.3)	24.2 (±0.3)	24.3 (±0.4)	10.4 (±0.4)	12.1 (±0.5)	13.1 (±0.5)	15.3 (±0.6)	16.3 (±0.5)	19.8 (±0.7)	27.3 (±7.2)	21.8 (±5.1)

*Female.

^†Male. Values are mean±SD (n = 20) at 25°C, from three independent experiments.