Artificial diet for cocoa pod borer moth Conopomorpha cramella snellen

Rafiah Karim, . and Azwan Awang, . and Furtek D.B., . (2006) Artificial diet for cocoa pod borer moth Conopomorpha cramella snellen. [Proceedings Paper]

Cocoa pod borer CPB Conopomorpha cramella Snellen is an exceptionally devastating insect pest of cocoa in Malaysia and other South East Asian countries. An artificial diet that allows CPB to complete its life cycle is needed to establish laboratory colonies for insect pest management programs. We successfully developed six artificial diet that can sustain CPB from egg to larva to pupa to adult moth and to egg again. The diet contain immature cocoa pulp and placenta egg yolk cellulose starch casein yeast choline chloride i-inositol Vanderzant vitamins flaxseed oil agar and water. Rearing was conducted in petri dishes with diet blocks at room temperature and in darkness. Several adult moth emerged four was morphologically normal but only one that reared in CPB60-N diet was fecund. It was able to mate with a wild virgin female producing egg with 75 viability. From these three larvae were reared in the same artificial diet until pupation and one emerged into an adult moth. This is the first artificial diet to sustain not only CPB but also any member of the Gracillariidae family from egg to larva to pupa to adult to egg again.

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Abstract

Cocoa pod borer CPB Conopomorpha cramella Snellen is an exceptionally devastating insect pest of cocoa in Malaysia and other South East Asian countries. An artificial diet that allows CPB to complete its life cycle is needed to establish laboratory colonies for insect pest management programs. We successfully developed six artificial diet that can sustain CPB from egg to larva to pupa to adult moth and to egg again. The diet contain immature cocoa pulp and placenta egg yolk cellulose starch casein yeast choline chloride i-inositol Vanderzant vitamins flaxseed oil agar and water. Rearing was conducted in petri dishes with diet blocks at room temperature and in darkness. Several adult moth emerged four was morphologically normal but only one that reared in CPB60-N diet was fecund. It was able to mate with a wild virgin female producing egg with 75 viability. From these three larvae were reared in the same artificial diet until pupation and one emerged into an adult moth. This is the first artificial diet to sustain not only CPB but also any member of the Gracillariidae family from egg to larva to pupa to adult to egg again.

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Item Type:	Proceedings Paper
Additional Information:	2 ill. 1 table 12 ref.
AGROVOC Term:	ARTIFICIAL REGENERATION
AGROVOC Term:	CONOPOMORPHA CRAMERELLA
AGROVOC Term:	GRACILLARIIDAE
AGROVOC Term:	THEOBROMA CACAO
AGROVOC Term:	DIET
AGROVOC Term:	MALAYSIA
Geographical Term:	MALAYSIA
Depositing User:	Ms. Norfaezah Khomsan
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 05:26
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15567

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