I'm working on one of parasitoid wasps of Anarsia lineatella and I want to rearing eggs on artificial food so I need more eggs for my experiment. I want to know how can encourage females to lay more eggs. I reared both male and females in plastic bags (30*20*10 cm) with peach fruit at ( 16:8 D: L, 23-25°C) but their egg's laying is low. I will very appreciate if tell me your answers
Dear Siamak Roshandel
You could add drop of Sucrose to the cages for females feedings Pls. find the attached files, may help in your research, good luck
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20222587
http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/30576765/JEc_Ent.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ56TQJRTWSMTNPEA&Expires=1471886358&Signature=ghn3izPRXeVLRFYZuC8VMmwK6Co%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DTemperature-Dependent_Bionomics_and_Mode.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233557355_Establishment_and_Rearing_of_Anarsia_lineatella_Lepidoptera_Gelechiidae_on_a_Meridic_Diet
http://jee.oxfordjournals.org/content/86/5/1399
http://damos.webpages.auth.gr/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/46_Ghent_Larval_diets_Abstr.pdf
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Prof. Houda Kawas
Article Establishment and Rearing of Anarsia lineatella (Lepidoptera...
Dear Houda Kawas
Thanks for your answer, I add Sucrose and honey already but there was no significant difference in egg laying.
Regards
Dear Siamak Roshandel,
For preparing strong colony of insect you must be focused upon the Egg Production by the insect also for making insects lay more no. of eggs, you could have try with the oviposition attractant and stimulant so that insects especially female could get attracted towards the treated surface and could be enforced to lay higher no. of eggs as well-established in other class of insects, but for that you needed to explore the attractant/ stimulant for that articular insect.
Though this step is much tedious but quiet interesting.
Best of Luck
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