Effect of Host Pupae Cryogenic, Anesthesia, Parasitoid‐to‐Host Ratios to Scleroderma sichuanensis the Percentage Parasitism and Numbers of Output
Jiangwei Zheng, Ke Li, Wei Li, Wensheng Xia, Yao Zhao, Tao Liu, Yu Peng · 2024
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Description
Jiangwei Zheng and co-authors tuned the indoor breeding of a parasitic wasp used against burrowing forest pests. The wasp lays its eggs on host pupae, and farms rear it on mealworm pupae. The team tested how chilling the pupae, numbing them with ether vapor, and changing the wasp-to-host ratio affected how many hosts got parasitized and how many young wasps emerged.
The best setup paired two wasps with each host pupa. Numbing the pupae with ether fumes for an hour and a half and chilling them at minus ten degrees also helped. Under these conditions both parasitism and wasp output peaked. The authors present the recipe as a practical route to producing more of these wasps for pest control.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jiangwei Zheng, Ke Li, Wei Li, Wensheng Xia, Yao Zhao, Tao Liu, Yu Peng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |