Fig 4. The percentage of brachypterous female adults of Sogatella furcifera produced under near-zero magnetic field (NZMF) vs. geomagnetic field (GMF).
Under NZMF, 452 and 123 individual newly emerged female adults were macropterous and brachypterous, respectively, whereas under GMF, 342 and 65 females were macropterous and brachypterous, respectively. Insects in both magnetic field treatments came from the same number of parents and were reared for one generation under either NZMF or GMF. Different lowercase letters showed significant differences between NZMF and GMF by the Chi-square test at P<0.05.