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1 February 2006 Life Tables of Venturia canescens (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) Parasitizing the Mediterranean Flour Moth (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
P. A. Eliopoulos
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Abstract

Effects of temperature, adult feeding, and host instar on life table parameters of Venturia canescens Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) parasitizing larvae of Ephestia kuehniella Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) were studied in the laboratory. Experimental adults lived under various regimes of temperature (15, 20, 25, and 30°C), food supply (with or without access to honey), and host instar (second, third, fourth, and fifth). Temperature increase resulted in higher values of the intrinsic rate of natural increase (rm), the net reproductive rate (Ro), the finite capacity of increase (λ), and the gross reproductive rate (GRR), whereas it was followed by decrease of the mean generation time (G) and the doubling time (DT) values. Feeding on honey caused remarkable increase of rm, Ro, and GRR, whereas rm and λ reached their maximum when full-grown hosts (fifth instar) were parasitized. This is the first time life table parameters of V. canescens have been studied. The findings of the current study are discussed on the basis of improving V. canescens performance as a biological agent against moth pests of stored products.

P. A. Eliopoulos "Life Tables of Venturia canescens (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) Parasitizing the Mediterranean Flour Moth (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)," Journal of Economic Entomology 99(1), 237-243, (1 February 2006). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-0493(2006)099[0237:LTOVCH]2.0.CO;2
Received: 31 May 2005; Accepted: 15 September 2005; Published: 1 February 2006
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KEYWORDS
biological control
life tables
stored products
Venturia canescens
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