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Prevalence of salivary gland hypertrophy syndrome in laboratory colonies and wild flies of Glossina pallidipes in Ethiopia

open access: yesOnderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2015
Glossina pallidipes salivary gland hyperplasia (GpSGH) syndrome caused by the salivary gland hyperplasia virus reduces the reproduction potential of tsetse flies, posing a serious threat for rearing of sufficient colonies for use of tsetse and ...
Mahder M. Yimer   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Validation of a new larval rearing unit for Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) mass rearing. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
The mosquito larval rearing unit developed at the Insect Pest Control Laboratory (IPCL) of the FAO/IAEA Joint Division was evaluated for its potential use for Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1895) mass rearing in support of the development of a sterile insect ...
Fabrizio Balestrino   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cost-effective and efficient factitious prey for mass production of Neoseiulus cucumeris (Acari: Phytoseiidae): assessing its quality compared with natural prey

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2022
Background Using alternative diets for the mass production of phytoseiid predatory mites may facilitate their cost-effective rearing. Factitious prey is often used as an alternative food source for mass rearing of generalist phytoseiids.
Shima Yazdanpanah   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reducing the cost and assessing the performance of a novel adult mass-rearing cage for the dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika vector, Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus).

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
INTRODUCTION:The widespread emergence of resistance to insecticides used to control adult Aedes mosquitoes has made traditional control strategies inadequate for the reduction of various vector populations. Therefore, complementary vector control methods,
Hamidou Maïga   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of diets for rearing the larvae of Mediterranean fruit fly: nutritional and economic aspects

open access: yesSemina: Ciências Agrárias, 2017
The Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824) (Diptera: Tephritidae) is the main pest of fruit crops worldwide due to its broad distribution, direct damages, and adaptation to different hosts.
Daniela Ribeiro da Costa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mass larval rearing technology of marine finfish in Japan [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
With economic development and increased demand for high price fish, industrial scale marine finfish culture in Japan was started in 1960-1965 for yellowtail Seriola quinqueradiata. Sustainable supply of wild juvenile and development of floating cage with
Fukusho, Kunihiko
core   +1 more source

Rearing conditions and lifetime milk revenues in Swedish dairy cows [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Associations between replacement heifer rearing conditions and lifetime milk revenues were studied throughout the productive life of Swedish dairy cows.
Svensson, Catarina,   +8 more
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Modeling the cost-effectiveness of insect rearing on artificial diets: A test with a tephritid fly used in the sterile insect technique.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
We modeled the cost-effectiveness of rearing Anastrepha ludens, a major fruit fly pest currently mass reared for sterilization and release in pest control programs implementing the sterile insect technique (SIT).
Carlos Pascacio-Villafán   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Temperature on the Development and Survival of Feltiella acarisuga (Vallot) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Preying on Tetranychus urticae (Koch) (Acari: Tetranychidae)

open access: yesInsects, 2021
The predatory gall midge, Feltiella acarisuga (Vallot) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), is an acarivorous species that mainly feeds on spider mites (Acarina: Tetranychidae).
Yong-Seok Choi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A brief review of the larval rearing techniques of penaeid prawns [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
As early as half a century ago, Hudinaga successfully spawned and attempted to rear the larvae of Penaeus japonicus. Publications in the 1960 s, 70's and 80's on breakthroughs in larval rearing of one penaeid species after another indicated that ...
Liao, I-Chiu
core   +1 more source

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