Egg-grain moth – Sitotroga cerealella
UNIVERSAL FEED FOR ENTOMOPHAGES. Eggs of the grain moth (Sitotroga cerealella) are a natural substitute for food in the mass breeding, accumulation and maintenance of the population of predatory entomophages (lacewing, cycloned, macrolofus, dicifus, orius, anthocoris). It has been established that at the time of absence or during the period of weak dispersal of plants by pests, the dispersion of grain moth eggs contributes to the preservation of the population of entomophages and a significant increase in its number (3-4 times or more). The use of grain moth eggs as food does not change the main biological parameters of entomophages for many generations. The reverse transition to feeding on a natural host occurs without complications and even with an improvement in the biological parameters of the predator (an increase in fertility by a factor of two or more), so eggs can be successfully used to maintain the population of entomophages, before the appearance of pests in greenhouses and greenhouses, as well as for their mass breeding in biolabs.
