Development of an Optimum Diet for Mass Rearing of the Rice Moth, Corcyra cephalonica (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), and Production of the Parasitoid, Habrobracon hebetor (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), for the Control of Pearl Millet Head Miner

Two sets of three experiments were conducted to evaluate dif- ferent diets for production of C. cephalonica. The first experi- ment consisted of five treatments: 1) 100% pearl millet, 2) 50% pearl millet + 50% sorghum, 3) 50% pearl millet + 50% cowpea, 4) 50% pearl millet + 50% peanut, and 5) 25% pearl millet + 25% sorghum + 25% cowpea + 25% peanut. The second experiment was set up based on the results of the first experiment. For this experiment, the diets were prepared from a combination of flours of pearl millet and cowpea with the fol- lowing proportions: 1) 100% pearl millet, 2) 50% pearl millet + 50% cowpea, 3) 75% pearl millet + 25% cowpea, and 4) 95% pearl millet + 5% cowpea. Data included number of living and dead larvae of C. cephalonica, number of C. cephalonica emerging moths, number of eggs and number of emerging H. hebetor offspring.

本研究设置两组共三项实验，用于评估不同饲料对米蛾（Corcyra cephalonica，C. cephalonica）饲养繁育的效果。第一项实验设置5个处理组：1）100%珍珠粟（pearl millet）饲料；2）50%珍珠粟+50%高粱（sorghum）混合饲料；3）50%珍珠粟+50%豇豆（cowpea）混合饲料；4）50%珍珠粟+50%花生（peanut）混合饲料；5）25%珍珠粟+25%高粱+25%豇豆+25%花生混合饲料。第二项实验基于第一项实验的结果构建，该实验的饲料由珍珠粟与豇豆粉料按以下比例配制：1）100%珍珠粟饲料；2）50%珍珠粟+50%豇豆混合饲料；3）75%珍珠粟+25%豇豆混合饲料；4）95%珍珠粟+5%豇豆混合饲料。本实验采集的数据集包含米蛾活幼虫与死幼虫数量、羽化米蛾成虫数量、产卵量以及麦蛾茧蜂（Habrobracon hebetor，H. hebetor）子代的羽化数量。