Table 4. Effects of whitefly species as prey on biological traits of O. strigicollis.

The developmental time for N1, N2 and N4 was significantly higher when fed on T. vaporariorum. However, no significant difference recorded in adult longevity. SEs were estimated using 100,000 bootstrap. Means marked with multiple letters in the same row symbolize the significant difference using a pair bootstrap test. P < 0.05.

Life stages	B. tabaci	T. vaporariorum
	Mean ± S.E.	Mean ± S.E.
Egg duration (d)	3.00 ± 0.00 a	3.00 ± 0.00 a
N1 duration(d)	2.10 ± 0.06 b	2.30 ± 0.09 a
N2 duration (d)	3.24 ± 0.08 b	3.80 ± 0.09 a
N3 duration (d)	3.00 ± 0.00 a	2.96 ± 0.10 b
N4 duration (d)	2.15 ± 0.46 b	2.42 ± 0.01 a
N5 duration (d)	3.65 ± 0.49 a	3.71 ± 0.14 a
Male adult longevity (d)	11.67 ± 1.45 a	11.33 ± 1.52 a
Female adult longevity (d)	15.47 ± 1.30 a	13.82 ± 1.86 a