1. Evaluation of volumes of Ceratitis capitata larvae in exposure devices to Diachasmimorpha longicaudata in mass rearing conditions in Costa Rica
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Helga Blanco-Metzler, Rossy Morera-Montoya, and María Isabel González-Lutz
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biology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Quality control ,Parasitism ,Fertility ,Ceratitis capitata ,Logistic regression ,biology.organism_classification ,Fecundity ,Mass rearing ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,Parasitoid ,Animal science ,Exposure device ,Insect Science ,Diaschamimorpha longicaudata ,Analysis of variance ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,Sex ratio ,media_common - Abstract
Five volumes (60 cc, 70 cc, 80 cc, 90 cc and 100 cc) of L3 of Ceratitis capitata in exposure devices to the parasitoid Diachasmimorpha longicaudata were evaluated in mass rearing conditions with the objective of finding the optimal quantity of host larvae to obtain the best parasite quality parameters. The variables like parasitism, sexual proportion and fertility were analyzed with ANOVA and compared with Tukey’s range test. Significant differences were found for treatment in the variable parasitism (ρ = 0.0244), showing that the treatments of 60 cc and 70 cc obtained the highest number of parasitized larvae. The variables like sex ratio and fertility did not show any difference between treatments, but for fecundity there were variations for days 5 and 3 (ρ
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- 2019
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