Journal of Applied Entomology - Zeitschrift für angewandte Entomologie (1997) 121, 549-554

D. Szewczyk and G.A. Langenbruch (1997)
Neue Zuchtmethode für Tipula paludosa und Tipula oleracea (Dipt., Tipulidae) und Beobachtungen zur Entwicklung der Laborpopulationen
[A new rearing method for Tipula paludosa and Tipula oleracea (Dipt., Tipulidae) and some records on the development of the laboratory population]
Journal of Applied Entomology - Zeitschrift für angewandte Entomologie 121 (9-10), 549-554
Abstract: The previously complicated and labour-intensive rearing of Tipula spp. has been considerably simplified. The imagines of both sexes are kept in a cage for egg-laying. The food used is a solution of cane sugar, which attracts at the same time the females. In the direct neighbourhood of the food source, petri dishes are placed, which are filled with moist, marshy soil. The females lay their eggs there.The neonate larvae remain in those dishes, which are then covered. The larvae are fed with fresh plant material, and, later on (mostly in the second instar) are moved into larger dishes. After the third instar the larvae become negative phototactic and live in the ground. Therefore they can be kept in open boxes in a large cage. These rearing boxes are filled with soil, into which two stripes of grass has been sown. The bare soil between the stripes is covered with various plant material. Pupation and emergence of the adults takes place also in those boxes.
During these studies the food preferences of the laboratory strains have been determined, and some details of the Tipula-development recorded.
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(original language: German)
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
rearing/culturing/mass production

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Tipula paludosa
	Tipula oleracea