Figure 2

Variation in egg batch size (EBS) and hatch rate within and between treatment groups across the two experiments. Short-term (OD-7) and long-term (OD-14) oviposition-site deprived (OD) female groups are marked by the blue arrows and blood-deprived (BD) female groups are marked by red arrows. The dotted horizontal line denotes average across the first three gonotrophic cycles without deprivation. Sample sizes smaller than 10 are denoted by numbers with corresponding box-whisker plots. Analyses as described in Table1 (EBS – 0 included and hatch rate), conducted on each experiment separately were used to compute the contrasts depicted by the arrows. In a box-whisker plot, lines and diamonds denote medians and means, respectively, ‘boxes’ mark quartiles, and ‘whiskers’ extend up to 1.5 times the inter-quartile range, while circles denote values beyond the whisker boundaries. Significance levels of ANOVA tests are denoted as: ns P>0.05; *P<0.05; **P<0.01; ***P<0.001.