An artificial diet for blow fly larvae, Lucilia sericata (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 521-523

  Tachibana, Shin Ichiro ^a   Numata, Hideharu ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial diet; Blow fly; Larval development; Lucilia sericata

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035541411     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2001.521     Document Type: Article

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