Table 1.

Proportion of M. alternatus larvae whose Wolbachia were removed by antibiotic treatment.

	tetracycline concentration
	0.5%	1.0%
rearing period (week)	proportion of ftsZ-negative individuals (%) (mean weight of larvae ± s.d. in mg) [n]a
2	0 (445 ± 92)[9]	0 (218 ± 132) [7]
4	0 (916 ± 340) [9]	0 (818 ± 333) [8]
6	0 (1168 ± 89) [7]	0 (1087 ± 268) [8]

^aEach treatment was administered to 10 larvae of the first instar and only living larvae at the end of rearing period were used in this analysis.