Optimizing adult nutrition and mating duration to improve mass rearing of Chrysoperla zastrowi sillemi
KT Shivakumara, SS Udikeri, T. Venkatesan, T. Sudha, MC Keerthi, M. Mohan, C. Manjunatha, K. Ashok, GS Guruprasad, SG. Rayar · 2026
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KT Shivakumara and nine co-authors tune adult diet and mating time to boost mass rearing of a predatory lacewing used to eat crop pests. The lacewing hunts well and bears spray well, but farm scale output lags demand. The study came out in twenty twenty-six.
The team paired larva feeding tests with adult diet and mate time trials. Older larvae ate the most eggs of a moth prey, in the hundreds per larva. A diet of water, honey, protein powder, and pollen gave the top egg counts per female. Keeping a male with the female for five days gave the highest egg counts of all.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | KT Shivakumara, SS Udikeri, T. Venkatesan, T. Sudha, MC Keerthi, M. Mohan, C. Manjunatha, K. Ashok, GS Guruprasad, SG. Rayar |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |