An artificial diet containing plant pollen for the mealybug predator Cryptolaemus montrouzieri

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• 作者：Jiaqin Xie ; Hongsheng Wu ; Hong Pang and Patrick De Clercq
• 刊名：Pest Management Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：73
• 期：3
• 页码：541-545
• 全文大小：133K
• ISSN：1526-4998

文摘

The specialist predatory ladybird Cryptolaemus montrouzieri is an effective natural enemy of mealybugs and plays a key role in the biological control of these pests. However, its mass production is complicated by the dependence on parallel cultures of mealybugs or the need for Ephestia kuehniella eggs as an expensive factitious prey.