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Effects of different treatment methods of housefly pupae for the reproduction of Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae Rondani.

HE Zhang, LIU Ji-bing, CHEN Yong-ling, CHEN Zhong-zheng, DUAN Bi-sheng, HU Hao-yuan   

  1. (Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Biotic Environment and Ecological Safety, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, Anhui, China)
  • Online:2013-03-18 Published:2013-03-18

Abstract: It is an important way to massively rear parasitoid wasps by using appropriate methods to treat the wasps’ hosts and preserve them for a long duration. Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae Rondani is a pupal parasitoid of several dipteral pests, being of significance for the biological control of the pests. In this paper, housefly pupae were frozen at -20 ℃, cold storagepreserved at 6 ℃, and CO2asphyxiated for 1-, 3-, and 30 days, respectively, and some pupae were heatkilled and cold storagepreserved for 30 days, aimed to approach the effects of these treatment methods on the reproduction of P. vindemmiae on the pupae. The results showed that P. vindemmiae could reproduce on the pupae treated with the abovementioned methods, and the tibia length of the offspring had less difference with that on the fresh pupae. However, the reproduction of P. vindemmiae on the pupae treated with the abovementioned methods except frozen decreased with the increasing preserving duration of the pupae. At the prerequisite of preserving for 30 days, frozen pupae had the highest P. vindemmiae offspring reproduction, suggesting that P. vindemmiae could be massively reared when the housefly pupae were treated by frozen and cold storagepreserved.