Simple Method for Rearing the Insect Predator Geocoris punctipes (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) on a Meat Diet1
- 1 October 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 78 (5) , 1173-1175
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/78.5.1173
Abstract
An all-beef artificial diet was developed for rearing Geocoris punctipes (Say). Thus far, five complete continuous generations have developed on this diet at a cost of ca. $0 63 per 1000 adults. Eggs for a sixth generation have been laid. There was an increase in biomass from G. punctipes have increased in each succeeding generation, an indication that the present diet and techniques may lend themselves to mass culture of this important predator.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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