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From: Guidelines for laboratory rearing of insect evidence: the importance of air humidity for breeding of Necrodes littoralis (L.) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Fig. 1

The differences in colony mass at eclosion (A), average adult beetle mass at eclosion (B) and total survival (C) between colonies of larval N. littoralis reared under various air humidity and with or without adult beetles in the prelarval phase. Symbols: means, whiskers – 95% confidence intervals; different letters denote significant differences in pairwise comparisons. (D) Decomposing pieces of meat in a setup with adult beetles present in the larval feeding phase under different humidity levels (lower right corners). Photographs were made between 216 and 240 h from the start of the experiment. Numbers 1–5 denote replicates.

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