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Large White Butterfly

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Abstract

Pieris brassicae has been reared traditionally in the laboratory and in the home, on cabbage, which has often been readily available. However, with the acceptance of P. brassicae as a laboratory insect, and with the need for regular supplies of the insect, whether it be for teaching purposes or for screening of insecticides, there has always been a need for the development of synthetic diets. Over the last 20 years there has been much work in the development of insect diets with the consequence that now several hundred recipes have been published (Singh, 1974, 1977; Gardiner, 1978). Gardiner (loc. cit.) pointed out that P. brassicae has been successfully reared on two types of diet described in his review paper: Ignoffo’s and Yamamoto’s.

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Feltwell, J. (1982). Breeding. In: Large White Butterfly. Series Entomologica, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8638-1_5

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