Cold Storage Effects on Fitness of the Whitefly Parasitoids Encarsia sophia and Eretmocerus hayati
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Insects
2.2. Temperature Treatments
2.3. Parasitoid Fitness after Storage
2.3.1. Emergence Rate and Time
2.3.2. Longevity
2.3.3. Adult Size
2.3.4. Parasitism
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Emergence Rate
3.2. Emergence Time
3.3. Longevity
3.4. Adult Body Size
3.5. Parasitization Ability
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Storage Treatment | Emergency Rate (%) | |||
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Encarsia sophia | Eretmocerus hayati | |||
10-Day-Old Pupae | 12-Day-Old Pupae | 12-Day-Old Pupae | 15-Day-Old Pupae | |
Control (26 °C) | 86.0 ± 0.3 aA 1 | 87.0 ± 0.3 aA | 90.0 ± 0.2 aA | 85.0 ± 0.3 aA |
12 °C/1 week | 81.0 ± 0.3 abA | 84.0 ± 0.4 aA | 88.0 ± 0.3 aA | 88.0 ± 0.2 aA |
12 °C/2 weeks | 80.0 ± 0.3 ab | ⊗ 2 | ⊗ | ⊗ |
10 °C/1 week | 75.0 ± 0.3 abA | 85.0 ± 0.3 aA | 87.0 ± 0.3 aA | 86.0 ± 0.3 aA |
10 °C/2 weeks | 75.0 ± 0.3 ab | ⊗ | 77.0 ± 0.3 ab | ⊗ |
8 °C/1 week | 72.0 ± 0.3 abcB | 88.0 ± 0.3 aA | 62.0 ± 0.4 abcB | 86.0 ± 0.3 aA |
8 °C/2 weeks | 57.0 ± 0.4 cA | 53.0 ± 0.3 bA | 59.0 ± 0.3 bcA | 75.0 ± 0.3 aA |
6 °C/1 week | 67.0 ± 0.4 bcB | 84.0 ± 0.2 aA | 56.0 ± 0.3 bcB | 84.0 ± 0.3 aA |
6 °C/2 weeks | 49.0 ± 0.3 cA | 41.0 ± 0.6 bA | 45.0 ± 0.4 cdB | 77.0 ± 0.3 aA |
4 °C/1 week | 56.0 ± 0.5 cA | 39.0 ± 0.3 bB | 43.0 ± 0.3 cdA | 40.0 ± 0.3 bA |
4 °C/2 weeks | 18.0 ± 0.2 dA | 14.0 ± 0.3 cA | 22.0 ± 0.1 dA | 30.0 ± 0.3 bA |
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Kidane, D.; Ferrante, M.; Man, X.-M.; Liu, W.-X.; Wan, F.-H.; Yang, N.-W. Cold Storage Effects on Fitness of the Whitefly Parasitoids Encarsia sophia and Eretmocerus hayati. Insects 2020, 11, 428. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11070428
Kidane D, Ferrante M, Man X-M, Liu W-X, Wan F-H, Yang N-W. Cold Storage Effects on Fitness of the Whitefly Parasitoids Encarsia sophia and Eretmocerus hayati. Insects. 2020; 11(7):428. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11070428
Chicago/Turabian StyleKidane, Dawit, Marco Ferrante, Xiao-Ming Man, Wan-Xue Liu, Fang-Hao Wan, and Nian-Wan Yang. 2020. "Cold Storage Effects on Fitness of the Whitefly Parasitoids Encarsia sophia and Eretmocerus hayati" Insects 11, no. 7: 428. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11070428
APA StyleKidane, D., Ferrante, M., Man, X. -M., Liu, W. -X., Wan, F. -H., & Yang, N. -W. (2020). Cold Storage Effects on Fitness of the Whitefly Parasitoids Encarsia sophia and Eretmocerus hayati. Insects, 11(7), 428. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11070428