Table 1.

Summary of the oviposition experiments on C. stellifer under different two-choice conditions

Experiment	Treatment vs control	Trialsa (replicates within each trial)	Blood-fed females (n)	Gravid females (n)	Oviposited females (n)	Odds ratio (95% CI)	P-valueb
1	DI control vs DI control	2 (6)	12	10	3	1.0 (0.2–4.1)	0.9890
2	Field water vs DI control	2 (6)	12	9	2	0	1.0000
3	Sympatric mud vs DI control	2 (6)	12	11	6	4.4 (1.7–11.8)	0.0042
4	WTD manure vs DI control	2 (7)	14	10	4	0.4 (0.1–2.0)	0.2500
5	Moss vs DI control	2 (8–9)	17	11	11	9.3 (1.5–59.0)	0.0320
6	Combined substrates vs DI control	3 (5–6)	17	13	5	6.6 (2.3–19.2)	0.0014
7	Sympatric mud + WTD manure vs Sympatric mud	5 (5–6)	27	21	7	0.67 (0.2–2.6)	0.5700
8	Sympatric mud vs Allopatric mud	2 (6–8)	14	13	6	6.2 (2.2–19.2)	0.0007

^aTrials within an experiment were not significantly different (P > 0.05)

^bSignificant P-values (odds ratio) shown in bold (P < 0.05)

Abbreviations: WTD white-tailed deer, CI confidence interval