highly significantp < 0.001
californicus was highly significant ( χ 2 = 29.428, df = 3, p < 0.001), and the main effect of rearing strain was also significant ( χ 2 = 9.452, df = 1, p = 0.002).
californicus was highly significant ( χ 2 = 29.428, df = 3, p < 0.001), and the main effect of rearing strain was also significant ( χ 2 = 9.452, df = 1, p = 0.002).
Although statistically non‐significant, a clear trend was observed: with the increase in O. bakeri density, the cannibalism rate of the TU‐strain on conspecific larvae showed a decreasing trend (Figure 2A ), and that of the OB‐strain on eggs also exhibited a declining trend (Figure 2B ).
Conversely, the cannibalism rate on deutonymphs exhibited an increasing trend (from 6.67% to 26.67%).
When prey density increased from 0 to 5 individuals per arena, the cannibalism rates of the OB‐strain females on eggs, larvae, and protonymphs exhibited a decreasing trend.