New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science

Table 3 Time (min) spent per host egg (mean ± se) by solo and intruder E. nassaui on parasitism-related behaviours (n = 20 solo and 11 intruder females)

From: Observations of parasitism and aggression by female Enoggera nassaui, an egg parasitoid of the eucalypt pest, Paropsis charybdis

Female	Drum	Probe	Host feed	Oviposit
Solo	2.78 ± 0.18	3.55 ± 0.20	1.56 ± 0.07	3.37 ± 0.32
Intruder	1.28 ± 0.16^a	2.72 ± 0.31^a	1.77 ± 0.42	1.95 ± 0.28^a

^aDiffers from solo females, P < 0.05

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