Abstract
The fecundity of females of Pseudaulacaspis pentagona reared on previously irradiated potato tubers (in the range of 2.5-20 krad) is reduced and reduction of fecundity is dose dependent. The fecundity of Plodia interpunctella females reared on a whole preirradiated meridic diet or on a meridic diet including irradiated casein or irradiated dextrose is unchanged. On the other hand, the number of emerging moths is lower on the whole irradiated diet and on the diet with casein irradiated alone, and the mean duration of larval development is obviously longer when casein only or dextrose alone was irradiated. It is, today, impossible to explain what chemical modifications of the preirradiated diet disturb the physiology of Plodia.
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