Fig. 3

Average number of lifelong eggs laid by the female B. dorsalis. The control group was fed full diets only. (a): Symbiotic flies and (b): Axenic flies; (i): daily number of eggs laid by each female fly & (ii): average lifelong eggs lay per female. Mean bars with different letters between treatments are statistically different after Tukey’s post hoc tests at P ≤ 0.05