Fig. 7
From: Non-associative versus associative learning by foraging predatory mites
Number of eggs laid by gravid thrips-experienced and -naïve (spider mite T. urticae-experienced) N. californicus females, simultaneously offered four spider mite nymphs, T. urticae, plus four first larvae of thrips, F. occidentalis, within 8 and 24 h, in dependence of the predators’ type of experience early in life. Type of experience was either contact with live prey but no feeding (contact), feeding on prey (feeding), or contact with prey traces left on the surface (traces). Different superscript letters accompanying prey species experience indicate a marginally significant difference (GEE; P = 0.06)