Table 1. Eggs hatched and laid per female Cimex lectularius.
During Treatment | After treatment | Cumulative | |||||||||
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. | Day 1–9 | Day 10–23 | Day 24–37 | Day 38–51 | Day 1–51 | ||||||
Hatching success | Eggs per female | Hatching success | Eggs per female | Hatching success | Eggs per female | Hatching success | Eggs per female | Hatching success | |||
Control | ● | 98.4% | 4.1 | ● | 99.2% | 8.3 | 93.3% | 1.0 | - | 0.0 | 98.5 |
34.0°C | ● | 54.4% | 3.7 | ● | 43.1% | 8.7 | 73.5% | 1.1 | - | 0.0 | 48.5 |
35.5°C | ● | 0.5% | 6.1 | ● | 19.8% | 8.9 | 81.8% | 1.6 | - | 0.0 | 18.1 |
37.0°C | ● | 0.0% | 1.2 | ● | 6.7% | 0.8 | 0% | 1.3 | 0% | 0.2 | 1.5 |
38.5°C | ● | 0.0% | 0.1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | |||
40.0°C | ● | 0.0% | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | 0 |
Percentage of eggs hatched and eggs laid per female exposed to different temperatures for 9 days and then evaluated 10–23, 24–37, and 38–51 days after heat treatment while maintained at 22°C. The last column denotes the average percentage of eggs hatched over all periods.
● = feeding event.