Journal of Wood Science

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Table 4 Larval and fecal size measurements of N. hirtum fed on different artificial diets

From: Effects of dietary variation on lignocellulose degradation and physiological properties of Nicobium hirtum larvae

Diet	Larval size			Fecal size
Diet	Head width (mm)	Body length (mm)	Body weight (mg)	Width (µm)	Length (µm)	Perimeter (µm)	Shape ratio (SR)	Enclosure ratio (ER)
Low-starch diet (LS)	1.6 ± 0.1^A	4.3 ± 0.2^A	13.7 ± 1.7^A	267.0 ± 9.9^A	636.8 ± 19.8^A	1708.6 ± 61.7^A	0.4^A	0.9^A
Medium-starch diet (MS)	1.6 ± 0.1^A	4.7 ± 0.2^B	17.7 ± 1.9^B	287.8 ± 4.9^A	710.7 ± 10.9^B	1945.4 ± 43.5^B	0.4^A	1.0^A
High-starch diet (HS)	1.6 ± 0.0^A	5.5 ± 0.3^C	21.0 ± 2.6^C	309.5 ± 7.1^B	750.9 ± 7.7^C	2076.5 ± 64.8^B	0.4^A	1.0^A

Different letters (A, B and C) indicate significant differences among the diet treatments (Tukey HSD test, p < 0.05)

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