View source for Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira (2008) 43, 575-580

{{Publication
|Publication authors=Cleonor Cavalcante Silva, Raul Alberto Laumann, Maria Carolina Blassioli, Martin Pareja and [[Miguel Borges]]
|Author Page=Raúl Alberto Laumann, Miguel Borges
|Publication date=2008
|dc:title=''[[Euschistus heros]]'' mass rearing technique for the multiplication of ''[[Telenomus podisi (parasitoid)|Telenomus podisi]] ''
|Publication journal=Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira
|prism:volume=43 (5)
|prism:startingPage=575
|Last page=580
|External link=http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-204X2008000500004
|Publication abstract=The objective of this work was to improve the mass rearing technique of ''Euschistus heros'' in the laboratory. Nymphs and adults were reared at densities 100, 200, 300 and 400 eggs per Petri dish (9 cm diameter), and at 50, 100, 150 and 200 couples per rearing cages (900 mL), respectively. Survival rate of immature stages and survivorship and reproduction of adults were determinated. Survivorship of nymph to adult was the highest (89%) at density 100 eggs per dish. Adult survivorship was independent of density, and 100 couples per cage were the best to improve quality of the produced progeny. In these conditions, fecundity was 160.8±9.28 eggs per female, and a total of 8,950±456 eggs per cage per month was produced. Two hundred couples per cage showed a negative effect on reproduction, which decreased to 65%. With this technique, a colony of 35 cages with 100 couples per cage yields about 313.3 thousands eggs per month, which is enough to supply the egg parasitoid ''Telenomus podisi'' to colonize about 35 ha of soybean field.
|AbstractCC=Yes
|Research topic=biocontrol - natural enemies
|Research2P=rearing/culturing/mass production
|Benf research=rearing/culturing/mass production
|Is book=No
}}
{{Pest record
|Pest=Euschistus heros
|Crop=Soybean (Glycine max)
|Quarantined=No
}}
{{Beneficial record
|Beneficial=Telenomus podisi (parasitoid)
|Pest=Euschistus heros
}}