Do you need a rearing method using fresh leaves before bioassays?

If you don't need it, using artificial diet until bioassays is the best.

Now I rear about 15 Pyraustinae species by artificial diets for identify female sex pheromone.

I can send you the rearing method using artificial diets and recipe of them.

Do you need a rearing method using fresh leaves before bioassays?

If you don't need it, using artificial diet until bioassays is the best.

Now I rear about 15 Pyraustinae species by artificial diets for identify female sex pheromone.

I can send you the rearing method using artificial diets and recipe of them.

Thank you Mateus for the link of article. It looks helpful but couldn't get english version of that in web. Except abstract all the informations are in Portuguese language which I cannot understand.

Thanks Hideshi. I am actually trying to study growth response of Melonworm in different cucurbit hosts in laboratory condition say in incubator. So I need fresh leaves to feed them other than artificial diet.

Good thing is I am trying to build up a colony for my research and I need artificial diet for that and your information would be helpful. I would be more than happy to hear about your experience in artificial rearing techniques of insects.

Hi Babu,

hopefully you have access to this paper. indeed I have not

Improved Rearing System for Pickleworm and Melonworm (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

Authors: Elsey, K. D.; McFadden, T. L.; Cuthbert, R. B.

Source: Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 77, Number 4, August 1984 , pp. 1070-1072(3)

best regards,

Thanks Islam, yes I do read this paper. This paper is mainly focused on rearing of melonworm in artificial diet and indeed this was a little bit old paper(1984). Actually I am looking for rearing techniques in fresh leaves.

Thanks again