Table 1. Mean values (± SEM) of eggs, nymphs and total viability of Diaphorina citri on flush shoot stages of 'Valencia' sweet orange plants grafted on 'Swingle' citrumelo under controlled environmental room (CER) and screen-house (SH) condition.
| Flush shoot stagex | ny | Viability (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eggz | Nymphz | Totalz | ||||||
| CER | SH | CER | SH | CER | SH | CER | SH | |
| V1 | 9 | 13 | 83,9±1,7a | 80,3±2,4a | 79,1±4,0a | 51,9±8,4b | 66,5±3,7a | 43,3±7,3b |
| V2 | 18 | 17 | 75,6±3,9a | 84,6±3,4a | 87,0±2,0a | 79,4±4,5a | 66,2±4,2a | 68,2±5,5a |
| V3 | 14 | 19 | 75,7±3,3a | 84,6±2,9a | 85,5±2,7a | 78,0±4,6a | 64,6±3,5a | 66,3±4,4a |
| V4 | 12 | 13 | 70,2±3,2a | 81,4±2,1a | 6,3±54,4b | 32,8±6,7bc | 4,9±3,5b | 27,4±5,7bc |
| V5 | 8 | 28 | 73,9±6,9a | 77,5±2,6a | 0b | 21,1±3,7c | 0b | 16,2±3,8c |
x Eggs were not laid on V6 flushes.
y Number of replications.
z Means with the same letter within the column did not differ statistically by Tukey-HSD test (P < 0.05) (comparisons were not made between both ambient).