Proportion of strikes by various Vespula wasps on white or black targets in color discrimination experiment 1, and on pheromone-treated or control targets in experiments 2-10. In all experiments except 1, the control target was treated with acetonitrile. Gray boxplots show the medians (vertical lines), interquartile ranges (boxes), and ranges (whiskers). Pseudomedians and 95% confidence intervals are shown in black. Asterisks indicate pseudomedians and means that are significantly different from 0.5 using Wilcoxon Signed Rank tests and t-tests, respectively. The X in experiment 8 indicates that only the mean number of strikes on the treated target in was significantly different from 0.5.

 
 
  Part of: McCann S, Moeri O, Jimenez SI, Scott C, Gries G (2015) Developing a paired-target apparatus for quantitative testing of nest defense behavior by vespine wasps in response to con- or heterospecific nest defense pheromones. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 46: 151-163. https://doi.org/10.3897/JHR.46.6585