Optimal clutch size for quality control of bisexual and Wolbachia‐infected thelytokous lines of Trichogramma dendrolimi Matsumura (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) mass reared on eggs of a substitutive host, Antheraea pernyi Guérin‐Méneville (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)

• Published in: Pest management science Vol. 76; no. 8; pp. 2635 - 2644
• Main Authors: Zhou, Jin‐Cheng, Liu, Quan‐Quan, Wang, Qian‐Ru, Ning, Su‐Fang, Che, Wu‐Nan, Dong, Hui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.08.2020; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Animal behavior; Antheraea pernyi; augmentation biological control; Biological control; Bisexuality; Body size; China; Clutch size; DNA nucleotidylexotransferase; egg parasitoids; Eggs; Fecundity; females; Fitness; hosts; imagos; insect control; insect pests; Longevity; Mass production; Offspring; Parameters; Parasitoids; Pest control; Pests; progeny; Quality control; rearing; Trichogramma; Trichogramma dendrolimi; wasps; Wolbachia; China; augmentation biological control; egg parasitoids; Antheraea pernyi; Wolbachia; Trichogramma dendrolimi

BACKGROUND Trichogramma dendrolimi has been widely used in augmentative biocontrol of lepidopteran pests in China. In mass production of T. dendrolimi using Antheraea pernyi eggs as substitutive hosts, which are large in size, as clutch size is a parameter of importance to produce high quality paras...