Rearing codling moth for the sterile insect technique

FAO PLANT PRODUCTION AND PROTECTION PAPER 199

Rearing codling moth for
the sterile insect technique

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2010

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Table of contents

Part I [960kb]

Preface
Contents
1. Introduction
2. History of Rearing the Codling Moth
3. Colonization from Field-Collected Material
4. Diet Ingredients
5. Nutritional Aspects of Diets

Part II [822kb]

6. Diet Preparation
7. Disposing of Spent Diet and Liquid Wastes
8. Seeding the Diet with Eggs or Larvae
9. Rearing, Sexing and Collecting Larvae
10. Rearing, Sexing and Collecting Pupae
11. Collecting, Holding, Marking and Sexing Adults
12. Mating and Feeding Adults, and Collecting, Incubating and Treating Eggs

Part III [781kb]

13. Diapause
14. Shipping Codling Moth
15. Microbial Contaminants, Pests, Pathogens and Parasitoids
16. Quality Control
17. Production Quality Control
18. Process Quality Control
19. Product Quality Control

Part VI [981kb]

20. Data Recording and Analysis
21. Health Hazards and Safety in a Rearing Facility
22. Rearing Facility: Design, Maintenance and Sanitation
23. Management of a Rearing Facility 155
References
Glossary
Annexes