Effects of natural and artificial diets under two rearing methods (group individual) on larval pupal development survivability Spodoptera litura (Fab.) were studied. The survival rate larvae pupae was significantly affected by (P = 0.05), which higher diet when reared individually. Results this study documented the growth index from diet. indices 5.24 1.65 individual group rearing, respectively...

the aim of the peresent study was to find the optimum weaning time to shift pikeperch larvae feeding from live food to the artificial feed. in this experiment, pikeperch larvae were fed with seived pond zooplankton (mainly rotifers) and artemia nauplii from the first feeding day to day 16 of post-hatching. then three weaning times were used on day 16 (w16), day 22 (w22), and day 28 (w28) of pos...

In recent years there has been considerable interest in laboratory rearing of Toxorhynchites mosquitoes for use as biological control agents (Vongtangswad and Trpis 1980) and foi the assay of dengue viruses (Eshita et al. 1982). Although larvae of these mosquitoes are cannibalistic (Steffan and Evenhuis 1981), mass rearing methods have been described for some species which have yielded pupation...

The food responses of Drosophila larvae offer an excellent opportunity to study the genetic and neural regulation of feeding behavior. Compared with fed larvae, hungry larvae are more likely to display aggressive foraging, rapid food intake, compensatory feeding, and stress-resistant food procurement. Behavioral assays have been developed to quantitatively assess particular aspects of the hunge...

A number of fragmentary reports suggest that the endangered diving beetle Cybister japonicus larvae feed on tadpoles, fish, and aquatic insects. However, no quantitative study on the feeding habits of C. japonicus larvae has been reported. In this study, field observations and rearing experiments were carried out to show the feeding ecology of C. japonicus larvae. Unlike previous commentaries, ...

Post-thawed larval rearing in Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas was performed to investigate the survival rate with time course in three kinds of larvae cryopreserved. The highest survival rate and larval activity index (LAI) of post-thawed larvae were obtained from the permeation in 0.2 M sucrose and 2.0 M ethylene glycol (EG) at -1°C/min in freezing speed showing the survival rates just after ...

Sanitation being an important component of chemical-free management of stored-products pests, the nutritional stress on insects that results from a clean environment may prove advantageous to the use of microbial controls. Dietary stress by food deprivation or suboptimal diet increased susceptibility of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst), larvae to Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) V...

introduction: land use change, deforestation, grazing, intentional and unintentional fire and invasive pests and diseases are all the major cause of damage to the zagros forest ecosystem. the green oak leaf roller (tortrix viridana l.) is one of the important pests of zagros forests. larvae of the pest significantly damage the oak forests with feeding on leaves and buds of different species of ...

Objective: In this study, the effect of diet food (soybeans, egg yolk and chicken manure) on biomass weight and body composition (the amount of protein, fat, moisture and ash) Chironomid larvae were examined. Methods: For this purpose, 2.5 grams of food per Coconut considered in the period, with three replicates and Chironomid larvae during the period of 15 days in plastic pans were kept in nut...

Larvae of Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann) and Chrysomya putoria (Wiedemann) were reared on liver tissues from a rabbit that had a malignant tumor in the thoracic cavity. Larval rearing of both blowfly species was conducted at ambient temperature. Larvae that fed on tissues from the rabbit with the tumor developed at significantly faster rates than those feeding on tissues from the control animal.