Table 1. House fly attraction to plant materials infested with honeydew-producing insects.
Treatment | Control | Treatment mean captures ± SEM | Control mean captures ± SEM | P-value | % Response to treatment | Reps |
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Citrus mealybug on squash | Nothing | 13.68 ± 0.99 | 7.21 ± 0.48 | p < 0.0001 | 65.5 | 28* |
Citrus mealybug on squash | Uninfested squash | 19.1 ± 1.34 | 12.6 ± 0.87 | p = 0.0028 | 60.3 | 16 |
Uninfested squash | Nothing | 8.75 ± 1.29 | 9.88 ± 1.38 | p = 0.62 | 47.0 | 8 |
Needle-damaged squash | Uninfested squash | 9.57 ± 2.77 | 8.43 ± 1.65 | p = 0.79 | 53.2 | 7* |
Pea aphid on faba bean plant | Faba bean plant, not infested | 18.4 ± 1.34 | 10.3 ±1.26 | p = 0.012 | 64.1 | 8 |
Fifty female flies were used per replicate, with 8 replicates per 24 hr bioassay period. Data were analyzed with ANOVA for the first comparison and by paired t-test for the remaining comparisons within each row. “% Response to treatment” is the total number of house flies captured on the treatment over the total flies captured on both treatment and control.
*Indicates that 1 or more replicates were discarded due to a cage failure allowing flies to access the test material within a beaker.