Mallophaga: in Vitro Testing of Artificial Diets1
- 17 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 69 (3) , 538-540
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/69.3.538
Abstract
Populations of Bovicola limbatus (Gervais) increased 4.5-5.7× over ca. 1.5 generations on diets of goat flesh and wool extract, dehydrated veal and dehydrated lanum, and goat flesh and mohair extract (ratios=3:1 by wt). Populations of B. crassipes (Rudow) increased 4.8× and those of B. ovis (Schrank) 2.8× over ca. 1.5 generations on dehydrated veal and wool extract (ratios=4:l and 3:1, respectively, by wt). The increases were less for lice from field collections than for lice from colonies that had been reared in vitro for 6-7 years.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: