Laboratory Techniques for Rearing the Sugarcane Borer on an Artificial Diet
- 16 December 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 61 (6) , 1742-1743
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/61.6.1742
Abstract
The sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis (F.), has been reared in the labaratory on a small scale with a variety of techniques. Pan and Long (1961) reared larvae of this species aseptically on autoclaved sugarcane tops and on artificial diets modeled after those used by Beck (1950) and Ishii (1956) for rearing the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner), and the Asiatic rice borer, Chilo suppressalis (Walker), respectively. Isa compared development of sugarcane borer larvae reared on corn, sugarcane, and artificial diets, and found that those reared on corn were larger and developed more quickly than specimens reared on sugarcane or artificial diets. Wongsiri and Randolph (1962) obtained more than 80% survival of sugarcane borer larvae reared on an artificial diet similar to that developed by Adkisson et al. (1960) for rearing the pink bollworm, Pectinophora Gossypiella (Saunders).Keywords
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