Susceptibility of different tomato, Solanum lycopersicum L., varieties to infestation with some insect pests in Egypt

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Table 3 Ovipositional preference of the tomato leaf miner, T. absoluta, on six tomato varieties

Tomato varieties	No. of deposited eggs/female (mean ± SE)
Tomato varieties	Choice test	No-choice test
Strain B	6.17 ± 1.31^a	47.0 ± 2.90^a
Beto 86	4.9 ± 0.66^a	51.8 ± 4.80^a
El bandora	8.05 ± 1.23^a	45.4 ± 4.00^a
GS	6.0 ± 1.26^a	48.2 ± 1.8^a
Casterlok	6.5 ± 0.93^a	50.0 ± 2.26^a
Super strain B	8.0 ± 0.70^a	49.0 ± 1.25^a
F	1.35	0.69

Means in rows with the same letters are not significantly different (p ≥ 0.05)