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Effect of Semi-synthetic Diets on Adult Longevity Sex-ratio. Oviposition Period and Fecundity of Heliothis armigera (Hbn)

Volume : 61
Issue: Jul-jul
Pages: 206 - 209
Published: October 12, 2023
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Abstract


There was a gradual build up of female population of H. armigera on semi-synth- etic diets and male population on natural hosts. There was an increase of oviposition period to the extent of 12.6 per cent from first to second generation in all the diets. The adults lived longer upto 14.5 days when the larvae had fed on diet-A, while it was only. 12 days in all the other diets. The increase in fecundity from first to second generation was marked in diet-A, from 661 to 918 eggs per adult and this diet resulted in the maximum fecundity as compared to the other semi-synthetic diet (diet-B) as well as lab-lab and tomato.

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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