A SIMPLE INSTANT DIET FOR REARING ARCTIIDAE AND OTHER MOTHS
A SIMPLE INSTANT DIET FOR REARING ARCTIIDAE AND OTHER MOTHS
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饲养北极蛾和其他飞蛾的简单速食饲料
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2005
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Rainer Bergomaz
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Rainer Bergomaz
一个基于豆类的半人工饲料经验，饲养物种Rhodogastria和Creatonotos（Arctiidae），foodplants的不可用或未知的。它也被成功地用于五个科的27个属的Heterocera，并且可能适合于饲养其他种类的蛾。即使在野外，饮食的制备也很简单，其成分也很便宜。尝试用人工饲料饲养昆虫有许多实际原因，特别是为了提供不受地点或季节影响的食物。许多饮食食谱已经出版（Vanderzant 1974，Singh 1977，Singh &摩尔1985），其中大多数是基于小麦胚芽，小麦胚芽+酪蛋白或豆类。它们的多样性主要来自于它们的维生素、蛋白质、碳水化合物、脂肪酸和防腐剂的各种来源。大多数已发表的鳞翅目昆虫的饮食已经测试了只有一个或几个密切相关的物种，饲养成功率很少可以标准化，以允许完全客观的比较。因此，某种饮食对任何给定但未经试验的物种的适用性是不可预测的。面对繁殖Rhodogastria和Creatonotos（Arctiidae）的需要，我们考虑了人工饲料，因为天然食用植物要么是未知的，要么不是连续可用的。我们还需要一种在热带地区田间条件下使用的简单培养基。为了达到这些目的，我们在很大程度上以经验主义的方式修改了文献中的食谱，直到我们以即时饮食结束，即使在热带地区的野外工作中，这种饮食也很便宜，很容易准备。这种简单的饮食也我目前的地址的作者：Forstzoologisches研究所大学弗赖堡，FoenbUhl 27，D-7801 StegenWittental，西德国。132《鳞翅目昆虫学会杂志》半人工饲料配方。为了简单制备，将6份I、1份琼脂和20份水混合。
A bean-based semiartificial diet was developed empirically for rearing species of Rhodogastria and Creatonotos (Arctiidae), foodplants for which were unavailable or unknown. It was also used successfully for Heterocera in 27 genera of five families, and is likely suitable for rearing additional species of moths. Preparation of the diet is simple even in the field, and its components are inexpensive. There are many practical reasons for attempting to rear insects on artificial diets, in particular to provide food independent of place or season. Numerous diet recipes have been published (Vanderzant 1974, Singh 1977, Singh & Moore 1985), most of which are based on either wheatgerm, wheatgerm + casein or beans. Their diversity arises mainly from their various sources of vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates, fatty acids, and preservatives. Most published diets for Lepidoptera have been tested with only one or a few closely related species, and rearing success can seldom be standardized to permit fully objective comparisons. The suitability of a certain diet for any given but untried species is thus not predictable. Faced with the need to breed Rhodogastria and Creatonotos (Arctiidae), we considered artificial diets because the natural food plants were either unknown or not continuously available. We also wanted a simple medium for use under field conditions in the tropics. To these ends, we modified recipes from the literature in a largely empirical fashion until we ended with an instant diet, which is cheap and easily prepared even during field work in the tropics. This simple diet also I Present address of authors: Forstzoologisches Institut der Universitat Freiburg, FohrenbUhl 27, D-7801 StegenWittental, West Germany. 132 JOURNAL OF THE LEPIDOPTERISTS' SOCIETY TABLE 1. Recipe of semiartificial diet. For simple preparation, 6 parts of I, 1 part of agar, and 20 parts of water are combined.