A Synthetic Diet for the Spruce Budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
- 1 January 1965
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 97 (1), 58-62
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent9758-1
Abstract
The spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens), was reared on a synthetic diet. Comparison of two successive laboratory generations reared on synthetic diet and on frozen balsam fir buds showed that diet-fed insects had a higher survival, developed faster, were heavier, mated more successfully, and were more fecund.Keywords
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