Fig. 3

The average daily reproductive rates (Mean ± SE) of adult females feeding on the four different dietary regimes: ad libitum, 33% IF, 50% IF, and 67% IF. The red numbers beside the line denote the sample size of each data point, and these numbers within boxes indicated the number of mites on starvation. The sample size increased in the earlier stage with more and more females starting to lay eggs, but in the later stage it decreased with the death of some females