MP Biomedicals™ Vanderzant-Adkisson Special Wheat Germ Diet for Insects

Description

• Vanderzant-Adkisson Special Wheat Germ Diet for Insects is a special wheat germ diet for the rearing of various insects
• Vanderzant-Adkisson modification is widely used for laboratory rearing of more than 20 species of insects
• Included among these are such important species of the order Lepidoptera as the corn earworm ( Heliothis zea ), the tobacco budworm ( Heliothis virescens ), the pink bollworm ( Pectinophora gossypiella ), the cabbage looper ( Trichoplusiani ), beet armyworm ( Spodoptera exigua ), yellow-striped armyworm ( Prodenia ornithogalli ), European corn borer ( Ostrinia nubilalis ), sugarcane borer ( Diatraea saccharalis ), and codling moth ( Carpocapsa pomonella ) and others
• Also included are two species of Curculionidae, the boll weevil ( Anthonomus grandis ) and the alpha weevil ( Hypera postica )
• The Special Wheat Germ Diet, when used with Vanderzant's Vitamin Fortification Mixture, has been very successful for rearing the corn earworm, the tobacco budworm and the pink bollworm.