Table 1a. Raw data from earlier work on the effects of including adult female poultry red mites with nymph stages on nymph feeding, when the two stages were co-fed on hens in on-hen feeding devices.

Devices were left on the hen for three hours in all experiments. Table 1a shows data from two experiments with feeding devices in which no adults were included and Table 1b shows data when adults were included in the feeding devices containing nymphs. These data were taken from studies during optimisation of the on-hen feeding device. As feeding the different lifestages simultaneously is more convenient as well as improving feeding data, this was done in all subsequent trials.

Hen No.	Nymph type	Exp. 1. Fed (3h)	Unfed (3h)	Exp. 2 Fed (3h)	Unfed (3h)
1	protonymph	1	58	1	41
2	protonymph	0	57	0	42
3	protonymph	0	45	0	38
4	protonymph	7	42	0	44
5	deutonymph	5	36	0	56
6	deutonymph	0	37	4	15
7	deutonymph	3	43	0	26
8	deutonymph	1	54	0	43