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Life table studies of the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella (L.) on cauliflower, cabbage and mustard

  • Author:C.GALICE LEO JUSTIN , M.GANESH KUMAR AND M.SWAMIAPPAN

    p-ISSN:0024-9602, e-ISSN:2582-5321, Vol:87, Issue:apr-jun

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A00445
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Abstract

                                Life table studies on cauliflower, cabbage and mustard showed that DBM had a gross reproductive rate of 89.16, 115,40 and 86.78 female eggs per female on the above three crops. The species had a capacity for natural increase of 0.16, 0.17 and 0.13 females per day on cauliflower, cabbage and mustard with a (daily finite rate of increase) of 1.18, 1.19 and 1.14 females per day, the population would multiply 3.18, 3.38 and 2.50 times every week.

Key words : Intrinsic rate of increase, Finite rate of increase, Gross reproductive rate, Plutella xylostella

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