Maternal and progeny quality of Habrobracon hebetor Say (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) after cold storage

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• 作者：Haoliang Chen^a ; George P. Opit^b ; Ping Sheng^a ; Hongyu Zhang^a ; ^{hongyu.zhang@mail.hzau.edu.cn"" rel=""nofollow}
• 关键词：Cold storage ; Parasitoid ; Hymenoptera ; Braconidae ; Progeny quality ; Biological control
• 刊名：Biological Control
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：September 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：58
• 期：3
• 页码：255-261
• 全文大小：791 K

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The ectoparasitoid Habrobracon hebetor Say (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is an important biological control agent for lepidopterous pests of stored products. We investigated the effects of low temperature storage on the quality of adult parasitoids and their progeny. Newly emerged females were stored for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 70 days at 5 ± 1 °C. Several reproductive and developmental parameters were then assessed to determine the quality of the adult parasitoids and their progeny. After more than 30 days of storage, there was a decrease in parental parasitism, but low temperature storage of parents had no effect on parasitism of the F1 generation. Parental longevity and fecundity decreased after more than 20 days of storage, but there was no effect of storage duration on the fecundity and longevity of the F1 generation until a storage duration of 50 days. Development time varied with storage duration but differences were within 2 days. Storage duration had no effect on the sex ratio of F1 and F2 generations. Our data show that H. hebetor can be cold stored for up to 20 days without adversely affecting the performance of the parasitoid. Therefore, short-term storage of H. hebetor adults could be used for maintaining and accumulating large numbers of parasitoids in mass rearing programs.