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A Synthetic Diet for the Spruce Budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Arlene McMorran
Affiliation:
Insect Pathology Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
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Abstract

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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.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1965

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