PRELIMENARY TRIAL FOR REARING THE SPIDER ACHAERANEA LUNATA AS A BIOCONTROL AGENT OF SPODOPTRA LITTORALIS (BIOSD) | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research | ||||
| Article 13, Volume 91, Issue 4, December 2013, Page 1415-1421 PDF (181.8 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejar.2013.165586 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| KALED A. AIAD; ALAA M. HALAWA | ||||
| Fruit Acarology Department, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The present work was carried out to rear Achaeranea Lunata under laboratory conditions. the spider A. Lunata was reared on first and second instar of the cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis (Boisd.). Results obtained show that incubation period of A. Lunata lasted 14 days .Spider individuals passed five spiderlings before reaching adult. The life cycle ranged between 102.9 and 85.3 days was for female and male,respectively. Female oviposition period was 10.6 days. The averaged of eggs per femal was 1.5 sac. Food consumption of A. Lunata Femal was 352.1 eggs/femal , white it was 179.3 larval /male. | ||||
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