Rearing of Microplitis mediator (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and its host Mamestra brassicae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Elodie BELZ; Céline E. GÉNEAU; Moritz FÜRST; Oliver BALMER; Pius ANDERMATT; Lukas PFIFFNER; Léon WESTERD; Henryk LUKA

doi:10.14411/eje.2014.043

European Journal of Entomology (Jul 2014)

Rearing of Microplitis mediator (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and its host Mamestra brassicae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Elodie BELZ,
Céline E. GÉNEAU,
Moritz FÜRST,
Oliver BALMER,
Pius ANDERMATT,
Lukas PFIFFNER,
Léon WESTERD,
Henryk LUKA

Affiliations

Elodie BELZ: Department of Plant Protection and Biodiversity, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Ackerstrasse 21, Postfach 219, 5070 Frick, Switzerland; e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Céline E. GÉNEAU: Department of Plant Protection and Biodiversity, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Ackerstrasse 21, Postfach 219, 5070 Frick, Switzerland; e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Moritz FÜRST: Department of Plant Protection and Biodiversity, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Ackerstrasse 21, Postfach 219, 5070 Frick, Switzerland; e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Oliver BALMER: Department of Plant Protection and Biodiversity, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Ackerstrasse 21, Postfach 219, 5070 Frick, Switzerland; e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Pius ANDERMATT: Technical Insect Rearing, Syngenta Crop. Protection Münchwilen AG, Breitenloh 5, 4333 Münchwilen, Switzerland
Lukas PFIFFNER: Department of Plant Protection and Biodiversity, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Ackerstrasse 21, Postfach 219, 5070 Frick, Switzerland; e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Léon WESTERD: Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 8031, 6700 EH Wageningen, The Netherlands
Henryk LUKA: Department of Plant Protection and Biodiversity, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Ackerstrasse 21, Postfach 219, 5070 Frick, Switzerland; e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2014.043
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 111, no. 3
pp. 443 – 447

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Establishing continuous and reliable colonies of pest-parasitoid systems in the laboratory is an essential requirement for carrying out manipulative experiments on biological control. Here we describe in detail the rearing protocols that we optimized for the efficient rearing of the cabbage moth Mamestra brassicae and its key parasitoid Microplitis mediator.

Published in European Journal of Entomology

ISSN: 1210-5759 (Print); 1802-8829 (Online)
Publisher: Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Science
Country of publisher: Czechia
LCC subjects: Science: Zoology
Website: https://www.eje.cz/

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