Abstract
The nutritional requirements of phytophagous insects in general were reviewed by Friend (1958). Later, some progress was recorded by Mittler and Dadd (1962) and Auclair and Cartier (1963) on the rearing of aphids on holidic diets, but information on the feeding and rearing of other plant-sucking insects on synthetic diets is very limited. Scheel et al. (1957) reported rearing 2 species of Hemiptera, Oncopeltus fasciatus (Dallas) and Euschistus variolarius (Palisot de Beauvois), on semisolid meridic diets, without the use of a membrane. They concluded that the absence of a membrane relatively impermeable to attractants and feeding stimulants is apparently an important feature toward successful feeding of these insects on synthetic diets. However, Landes and Strong (1965) showed that the hemipteron Lygus hesperus Knight can feed through various membranes and can be maintained alive for 46–113 days on oligidic diets prepared from juice extracted from green beans.
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