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- Title
Quality control of Telenomus remus (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) reared on the factitious host Corcyra cephalonica (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) for successive generations.
- Authors
Queiroz, A. P.; de Freitas Bueno, A.; Pomari-Fernandes, A.; Grande, M. L. M.; Bortolotto, O. C.; da Silva, D. M.
- Abstract
Egg parasitoid rearing on factitious hosts is an important step to reduce costs and increase availability of the biocontrol agent but it requires quality control to achieve success in field conditions. To this end, this study evaluated the quality of Telenomus remus (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) reared on Corcyra cephalonica (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) for until 45 generations. In the first bioassay, we evaluated the body size of the laboratory-produced parasitoids. In the second bioassay, flight activity was examined, measuring the percentage of 'flyers', 'walkers' and 'deformed' parasitoids. The third bioassay assessed parasitism on Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) eggs. Our data indicate that the laboratory-reared parasitoid neither lost its ability to fly nor to parasitize S. frugiperda eggs. In conclusion, quality did not decrease significantly during 45 generations, and therefore rearing of T. remus on C. cephalonica as factitious host promises to be successful.
- Subjects
PARASITOIDS; HYMENOPTERA; RICE moth; PARASITES; BIOLOGICAL assay
- Publication
Bulletin of Entomological Research, 2017, Vol 107, Issue 6, p791
- ISSN
0007-4853
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S000748531700030X