Artificial Corn-Based Diet for Rearing Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith, 1797) is considered a key pest of maize. However, the artificial diets used for rearing this insect in the laboratory do not contain corn. The aim of this study was to evaluate the biology and to compare the food consumption by S. frugiperda, as well as the food pr...
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author | Pinto, José Ricardo Lima Torres, Aline Finotti Truzi, Caio Cesar Vieira, Natalia Fernanda Vacari, Alessandra Marieli De Bortoli, Sergio Antonio |
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description | Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith, 1797) is considered a key pest of maize. However, the artificial diets used for rearing this insect in the laboratory do not contain corn. The aim of this study was to evaluate the biology and to compare the food consumption by S. frugiperda, as well as the food preference of the larvae in the standard diet and the corn-based diet. Three of the following diets were evaluated: a standard diet based on beans (D(1)), a diet with corn flour as substitute for wheat germ (D(2)), and a diet replacing beans with green corn (D(3)). The biological parameters evaluated were period and survival of larvae and pupae; weight of male and female pupae; sex ratio; fecundity; egg incubation period; and adult longevity. The nutritional indices were determined and the biological data obtained were used to determine the parameters of fertility life tables; we also performed a multiple-choice test (feeding test). Larval development of S. frugiperda occurred in all three diets, although without oviposition by females developed from larval fed on D(2). There was no difference among the diets in relation to the fertility life table parameters. The diet D(2) resulted in better ingestion, digestion, assimilation, and conversion of food, but was associated with a metabolic cost to assimilate the food. Using a multiple-choice test, we observed that the larvae preferred diet D(2). Based on our results, the most adequate diets for rearing S. frugiperda in the laboratory are D(1) and D(3). |
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spelling | pubmed-66018672019-07-05 Artificial Corn-Based Diet for Rearing Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Pinto, José Ricardo Lima Torres, Aline Finotti Truzi, Caio Cesar Vieira, Natalia Fernanda Vacari, Alessandra Marieli De Bortoli, Sergio Antonio J Insect Sci Research Articles Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith, 1797) is considered a key pest of maize. However, the artificial diets used for rearing this insect in the laboratory do not contain corn. The aim of this study was to evaluate the biology and to compare the food consumption by S. frugiperda, as well as the food preference of the larvae in the standard diet and the corn-based diet. Three of the following diets were evaluated: a standard diet based on beans (D(1)), a diet with corn flour as substitute for wheat germ (D(2)), and a diet replacing beans with green corn (D(3)). The biological parameters evaluated were period and survival of larvae and pupae; weight of male and female pupae; sex ratio; fecundity; egg incubation period; and adult longevity. The nutritional indices were determined and the biological data obtained were used to determine the parameters of fertility life tables; we also performed a multiple-choice test (feeding test). Larval development of S. frugiperda occurred in all three diets, although without oviposition by females developed from larval fed on D(2). There was no difference among the diets in relation to the fertility life table parameters. The diet D(2) resulted in better ingestion, digestion, assimilation, and conversion of food, but was associated with a metabolic cost to assimilate the food. Using a multiple-choice test, we observed that the larvae preferred diet D(2). Based on our results, the most adequate diets for rearing S. frugiperda in the laboratory are D(1) and D(3). Oxford University Press 2019-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6601867/ /pubmed/31260529 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/iez052 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Pinto, José Ricardo Lima Torres, Aline Finotti Truzi, Caio Cesar Vieira, Natalia Fernanda Vacari, Alessandra Marieli De Bortoli, Sergio Antonio Artificial Corn-Based Diet for Rearing Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) |
title | Artificial Corn-Based Diet for Rearing Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) |
title_full | Artificial Corn-Based Diet for Rearing Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) |
title_fullStr | Artificial Corn-Based Diet for Rearing Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) |
title_full_unstemmed | Artificial Corn-Based Diet for Rearing Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) |
title_short | Artificial Corn-Based Diet for Rearing Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) |
title_sort | artificial corn-based diet for rearing spodoptera frugiperda (lepidoptera: noctuidae) |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6601867/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31260529 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/iez052 |
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