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MERIDIC DIET FOR ENDOPIZA VITEANA (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Sudha Nagarkatti
Affiliation:
Lake Erie Regional Grape Research and Extension Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 662 N. Cemetery Road, North East, Pennsylvania, USA 16428
Andrew Muza
Affiliation:
Erie County Cooperative Extension, 850 East Gore Road, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA 16509-3798
Michael Saunders*
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, 501 ASI Building, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA 16802
*
1 Author to whom all correspondence should be addressed (E-mail: mcs5@psu.edu).

Extract

The grape beny moth, Endopiza viteana (Clemens), is the key pest of cultivated grapes in the eastern United States and Canada (Gleissner 1943; Ker 1990). Laboratory techniques have been developed for large-scale rearing of this tortricid (Taschenberg 1951, 1969) using grape berries of Vitis vinifera L. (Vitaceae) and locally grown varieties. The use of grape berries is unsatisfactory because berries attract fruit flies, develop mold, and rot rapidly at normal laboratory temperatures (Taschenberg 1969). In this paper, we describe a diet for rearing E. viteana and the process that was undertaken in its development.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 2000

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