Feeding fitness and quality of domesticated and feral predators: Effects of long-term rearing on artificial diet

Biological Control

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 50-54

  Cohen, Allen Carson ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial diets; Entomophagous insects; Feeding biology; Gut capacity; Handling time; Insect rearing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL DIET; BIOMASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SIZE;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; GEOCORIS PUNCTIPES; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LYGAEIDAE; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0033985733     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1999.0779     Document Type: Article

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