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Effects of the Amount of Food on Duration of Stages, Mortality Rates, and Size of Individuals in Tropisternus lateralis nimbatus (SAY) (Coleoptera: Hydrophylidae)
✍ Scribed by Dr. Shidokht O. Hosseinie
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 295 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-2944
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Larvae of Tropisternus lateralis nimbatus (SAY) were reared in the laboratory using different feeding regimes. Controls were fed as many mosquito larvae as they would readily eat until the later larval stages. Experimental groups were reared on a reduced number of larvae per day. The duration of stages, growth ratios, mortality rates, and elytral lengths in the control and experimental groups are compared.