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A XENIC, PARTIALLY SYNTHETIC DIET FOR THE ORIENTAL FRUIT MOTH, GRAPHOLITHA MOLESTA (LEPIDOPTERA: OLETHREUTIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

D. Ruth Laing  and
K. S. Hagen
D. Ruth Laing
Affiliation:
Division of Biological Control, University of California, Berkeley
K. S. Hagen
Affiliation:
Division of Biological Control, University of California, Berkeley
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Abstract

An inexpensive, artificial diet made with carrot powder, a commercially available product of Saccharomyces fragilis, ascorbic acid, mold inhibitors, and agar gave as good or better yields of G. molesta (Busck) moths as was reared from apples. One moth per 1.25 ml of medium at a cost of.08c per moth was the best obtained.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 102 , Issue 2 , February 1970 , pp. 250 - 252
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1970

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