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An investigation on some biological traits of Trichogramma brassicae Bezd. On the eggs of angoumois grain moth Sitotraga cerealella Oliv.
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An investigation on some biological traits of Trichogramma brassicae Bezd. On the eggs of angoumois grain moth Sitotraga cerealella Oliv.

A Yazdani Khorasgani, Shahla Hosseini Bai, K Hadad Iraninezhad and M Mashhadi Jafarloo
Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Vol.12(2), pp.271-283
2006

Abstract

Crop and Pasture Production trichogramma sitotroga cerealella parasitism development emergency longevity sex ratio size of body brachypterous
In this study, the fecundity, development period, emergency percent, longevity, sex ratio, hind tibia length and brachypterous or apterous adults wasps of Trichogramma brassicae Bezd. In it's rearing on eggs of Sitotroga cerealella Oliv. Were evaluated in 24±1oC, 65±5% RH and 14:10 (L: D) for five generations. The mean amount of investigated characteristics for adult wasps was obtained: fecundity: 34.55 eggs per female, development period: 11.61 days, emergency: 93.52%, longevity: 3.04 days, female's ratio: 64.56%, hind tibia length: 160.48 microns and brachypterouses or apterous: 6.02%.The efficacy of T. brassicae increase until 3th generation and then decrease in following genereation. The results indicated the suitability of S. cerealella as a host for rearing of T. brassicae.

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