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. 2013 May 21;8(5):e64768. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064768

Table 1. The proportion of Ooencyrtus telenomicida females selecting a (I) 1 day old, unparasitized Nezara viridula eggs (Ot), (II) 2 day old N. viridula eggs that had been parasitized by Trissolcus basalis when they were 1 day old (Tb1 - Ot2), (III) 4 day old N. viridula eggs that had been parasitized by T. basalis when they were 3 days old (Tb3 - Ot4), or (IV) 10 day old N. viridula eggs that had been parasitized by T. basalis 7 days earlier (Tb3 - Ot10) as their first oviposition site in a choice bioassay.

O. telenomicida ovipositing in N. viridula egg mass assembled using 4 different egg types
Egg types Ot Tb1-Ot2 Tb3-Ot4 Tb3-Ot10
Egg age 1 2 4 10
Egg age when parasitized by Tb - 1 3 3
Choice (%± SE) 24.0±6.0 a 46.0±7.1 a 26.0±6.2 a 4.0±2.8 b