Loxostege sticticalis L. imago feeding appliance

Abstract

The invention relates to a Loxostege sticticalis L. imago feeding appliance. The Loxostege sticticalis L. imago feeding appliance comprises three parts, i.e., a base, hoods and covers, and is characterized in that the base is a flat plate with a plurality of positioning devices, the hoods are transparent hollow columns with two unclosed ends respectively, a plurality of through holes are distributed in the covers, one end of each hollow column is detachably and fixedly connected onto the positioning device, the other end of each hollow column is closed by the corresponding cover and is detachably fixed, and the through holes in the covers enable the internal parts of the hollow columns to be communicated with the external part. The appliance provided by the invention has the advantages that since most eggs laid daily by imagoes during experiments are left on egg laying paper, not only can the counting of the eggs be facilitated, but also the eggs are very convenient to store and original data with more information can be obtained more easily; the imagoes are thoroughly prevented from escaping during feeding and replacement of the egg laying paper, the utilization ratio of laboratory spaces and resources is improved, and the superiority of the design is more remarkable when the quantity of repetitive experiments is larger.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of feeding and reproductive related experiments of meadow borer adults under indoor conditions, and is specially used for studying the reproduction, lifespan and offspring hatching rate of meadow borer adults or other insects similar to meadow borer adults in individual size and reproductive characteristics Or other sets of experimental equipment that require separate rearing of adults. Background technique [0002] The meadow borer (Loxostege sticticalis L.) is an insect belonging to the family Lepidoptera, mainly distributed in the narrow strip between 36° and 55° north latitude, including North America, Eastern Europe and Asia (Frolov, A.N., Malysh, Y.M. , Tokarev, Y.S., 2008. Biological features and population density forecasts of the beet webworm Pyrausta sticticalis L. (Lepidoptera, Pyraustidae) in the period of low population density of the pest in Krasnodar Territory. Entomol Rev88, 666-675; Knor, I....

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The recorded indoor research on meadow borers in my country began in the 1980s (Sun Xianrong, Lu Guangqiu, 1988. Measuring the food intake of meadow borer larvae. Inner Mongolia Agricultural Science and Technology.; Wei Qian, Zhao Xiaoli, Du Junling, Cui Wanli, Sun Mingjiang, 1987. Study on the relationship between the fecundity of the meadow borer adult and the temperature and humidity. China Plant Protection Guide.), but the research on the feeding equipment and methods for the meadow borer adult has not been reported so far

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