Velvetbean Caterpillar: A Rearing Procedure and Artificial Medium123
- 1 August 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 69 (4) , 487-488
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/69.4.487
Abstract
Rearing procedures and a semisynthetic diet are Presented for culturing Anticarsia gemmatalis Hübner. Insects reared on the prepared diet were comparable to those reared on soybean leaves except for a slight increase in generation time and larval mortality.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Wheat-Germ Diets for Insects: Rearing the Boll Weevil1 and the Salt-Marsh Caterpillar234Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1967
- Mass-Rearing of the Larvae of Nine Noctuid Species on a Simple Artificial Medium12Journal of Economic Entomology, 1965