Abstract
Preference for, and suitability of three plant species: Kalanchoe blossfeldiana, K. daigremontiana, and K. laciniata for oviposition by females of a predatory bug Orius laevigatus were investigated under laboratory conditions. The study was aimed at the improvement of the methods for laboratory and mass rearing of this entomophage widely used for biological control of greenhouse pests. The evaluated parameters were the number of eggs laid per leaf by O. laevigatus females within 24 h and the proportion of hatched larvae. The experiments showed that all three Kalanchoe species are more or less equally suitable as substrates for egg-laying by O. laevigatus females, although when possible it is preferable to use K. blossfeldiana.
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Claims 2
Claim · model-written summary
All three Kalanchoe species were roughly equally suitable for Orius egg laying.
- Interactor
- O. laevigatus
Orius laevigatuse0biocontrol_agent - Outcome
- suitable as substrates for egg-layinge0
KalanchoeOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“all three Kalanchoe species are more or less equally suitable as substrates for egg-laying by O. laevigatus females”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors preferred K. blossfeldiana for rearing when available.
- Taxon
- K. blossfeldiana
_Kalanchoe_blossfeldiana_-_inflorescence.jpg?width=60)
Kalanchoe blossfeldianae0 - Outcome
- preferable to use K. blossfeldianae0
- Qualifier
- when possiblee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
_Kalanchoe_blossfeldiana_-_inflorescence.jpg?width=500)
Verbatim
e0“when possible it is preferable to use K. blossfeldiana”