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Title An Inexpensive Feeding Bioassay Technique for Stored-Product Insects
Author Erin L. Clark , Rylee Isitt , Erika Plettner , Paul G. Fields , and Dezene P.W. Huber
Date 2014
Description We used the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum Herbst (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), to compare three feeding bioassay techniques using flour disks. The area (scanner or digital photographs) and mass (sensitive balance) of the same flour disks were measured daily for 1 or 2 wk to assess feeding by insects
Keywords Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, feeding bioassay, stored-product Insect, red flour beetle, feeding activity
URL http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1603/EC13283
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