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Rearing of Hippodamia convergens on artificial diet of chicken liver, yeast and sucrose
Author(s) -
Hussein M. Y.,
Hagen K. S.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
entomologia experimentalis et applicata
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.765
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1570-7458
pISSN - 0013-8703
DOI - 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1991.tb01503.x
Subject(s) - biology , library science , humanities , art , computer science
Many attempts have been made to rear coccinellid predators on artificial diets (Smith, 1965; Hodek, 1973). In polyphagous coccinellids, Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) (Niijima etaL, 1986), Coleomegilla maculata (de Geer) (Attalah & Newsom, 1966) and Menochilus sexmaculatus Fabr. (Matsuka etal., 1972), successful diets were found, while in the case of oligophagous coccinellids, Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus (Kariluoto, 1980) and Hippodamia convergens Guer. (Hagen, 1964), only failures have been reported. In California, adults ofH. convergens were sold commercially for biological control of aphids and mites (Hagen & van den Bosch, 1968; Rankin & Rankin, 1980). Mass rearing of H. convergens on artificial diets is most desirable for commercial scale biological control practice. Rearing of H. convergens using artificial diet has not been successful mainly because the adults produced few or no eggs (Hagen & Sluss, 1966; Hagen, 1986). Various formulations of artificial diets have been tested on H. convergens adults (Hagen, 1964; Attalah & Newsom, 1966) and larvae (Racioppi et al., 1981). Growth and development were slower when H. convergens larvae were fed on an artificial diet consisting of beef liver (Racioppi etal., 1981). A pork liver diet was successfully used for rearing the coccinellid, Cleobora mellyi Mulsant (Baln et al., 1984). An artificial of chicken liver has been used successfully to rear M. sexmaculatus larvae and adults (Hussein etal., 1986). The aim of this investigation was to test the artificial diet consisting of chicken liver on larvae of H. convergens.