Abstract
Lobesia (formerly also Polychrosis) botrana (Schiffermueller) is one of the main pests of vines, Vitis vinifera L., in the Mediterranean Region, damaging mainly their flowers and fruit. Roehrich (1967) compared apples with the leaves of several plants, including vines, as larval food. He found apples covered with leaves of vines or lettuce to be better than apples or leaves alone. His method was further developed using either ripe apples (Maison and Pargade 1967) or green thinning apples (Touzeau and Vonderheyden 1968). Moreau (1965) seems to be the first to attempt to rear L. botrana larvae on an artificial diet. Guennelon et al. (1970) reared over 30 generations on a diet consisting of 15 ingredients, including dried vine leaves, ripe grapes, grape seed oil, casein hydrolyzate, and brewer's yeast. The composition and performance of 2 artificial diets developed in our laboratory which do not contain parts of host plants is given in the present note.
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