Mass Rearing of the Tobacco Hornworm. I. Egg Production12
- 1 February 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 61 (1) , 170-174
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/61.1.170
Abstract
The biological potential, behavior, and the conditions under which maximal yield of eggs can be realized from tobacco hornworm moths, Manduca sexta (Johannson), were studied. From these studies, a procedure was developed whereby eggs in excess of 50,000 weekly were obtained. High egg production occurred from May to mid-October, when each moth produced an average of 80 eggs nightly and lived for 9 days. Egg output declined in mid-October to less than half the summer value and this depressed output was not alleviated until mid-May the following years.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Laboratory Rearing of the Tobacco Hornworm, Protoparce sexta (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)Journal of Economic Entomology, 1964