Table 2.
Summary results from analyses of variance on pre-adult mortality
| (a) Early larval mortality (< 48 h)1 | ||||
| Source | nDF | dDF | F | p |
| Food (F) | 4 | 5 | 0.215 | 0.919 |
| Strain (St) | 1 | 19 | 1.024 | 0.324 |
| F.St | 4 | 19 | 1.744 | 0.182 |
| Error | 19 | |||
| (b) Larval mortality (> 48 h to pupation) | ||||
| Source | nDF | dDF | F | p |
| Food (F) | 4 | 5 | 1.068 | 0.460 |
| Strain (St) | 1 | 19 | 1.432 | 0.246 |
| F.St | 4 | 19 | 1.316 | 0.300 |
| Error | 19 | |||
| (c) Mortality during pupation1 | ||||
| Source | nDF | dDF | F | p |
| Food (F) | 4 | 5 | 41.569 | < 0.001 |
| Strain (St) | 1 | 19 | 9.698 | 0.006 |
| F.St | 4 | 19 | 1.190 | 0.347 |
| Error | 19 | |||
nDF = nominator degrees of freedom
dDF = denominator degrees of freedom
1 Arcsine square-root transformed data