Evaluation of Three Larval and Adult Boll Weevil Diets12
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 72 (3) , 450-452
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/72.3.450
Abstract
Large-scale production procedures and conditions were used to evaluate 3 diets for rearing Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman. The Gast diet produced more adults at a lower cost than the other 2; however, with the Gast diet, adults were smallest and percent egg hatch was lowest. The high gossypol diet produced the largest adults and highest percent egg hatch. Yields of adults were lowest and cost per 1000 adults was highest with cottonseed flour diet.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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