ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

D0493 An innovative method for laboratory rearing of emerald ash borer larvae for parasitoid production

Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Exhibit Hall 3, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Jian J. Duan , Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Laboratory, USDA - ARS, Newark, DE
Tim Watt , Wildlife Ecology and Entomology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Craig Oppel , Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Unit, USDA, Newark, DE
Presently there is no practical method enabling researchers to rear Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) in the laboratory. In order to obtain sufficient numbers of EAB specimens researchers have resorted to either collecting EAB from infested ash bolts or collecting pre-pupae by bark stripping. Both methods are time consuming, resource intensive and neither method guarantees a consistent supply of high quality EAB for experimental purposes. Here we present a rearing method which allows us to rear an unlimited numbers of high quality EAB larvae year around in a laboratory environment.

doi: 10.1603/ICE.2016.57292

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