I have just started lab study on life cycle of Dasineura mali at different temperatures. I would appreciate any help from someone who has worked or is currently working on lab rearing of D. mali or any other midge species.
Riaz Shah
Dear Riaz Shah,
not having reared your species, in my rearing activities with Lepidoptera Noctuidae, we have observed that most calculations on developmental speed in literature finish when the adults emerge (from oviposition to adult). Resulting data for same species in different laboratories (concerning Helicoverpa armigera) differed by days. We have annotated the sex of the adults and found out that the speed differed between sexes. (should that be a "strategy" against inbreeding?) If you take a sample of 100 individual eggs from the same night oviposition and have 99 females resulting, the average value is much different from having (by chance ) 99 males. Perhaps this observation is useful to you. Kind regards,
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