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Effect of the Ages of Parasitoid and Host Eggs on Telenomus podisi (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) Parasitism

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This study investigates the influence of parasitoid age and egg age of the hosts Euschistus heros (Fabricius) and Dichelops melacanthus (Dallas) on parasitism of Telenomus podisi Ashmead. Six separate bioassays were conducted: parasitism on eggs of E. heros (bioassay 1) and D. melacanthus (bioassay 2) by T. podisi females of different age (1, 5, and 10 days old); parasitism by T. podisi on eggs of different age (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 days of embryonic development) of the hosts E. heros (bioassay 3) and D. melacanthus (bioassay 4); preference of T. podisi females for eggs at different embryonic developmental stages (eggs of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 days) of the hosts E. heros (bioassay 5) and D. melacanthus (bioassay 6). The age of T. podisi females and their hosts affected parasitism on both E. heros and D. melacanthus eggs. Overall, the parasitism rate was higher in older than younger parasitoids, independent of the tested host species, and host eggs between 1 and 3 days old were similarly parasitized. Thus, in T. podisi mass rearing facilities, it is recommended to use older adults (5 to 10 days old) as mother wasps to increase parasitism on the offered eggs. In addition, when hosts are completely absent in the field, or climatic conditions are unfavorable for release, mass-reared adults can be kept in the laboratory (25°C) for up to 10 days for later release in the field without any impairment of their subsequent parasitism performance.

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The authors thank Embrapa Soja, the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for their financial support and fellowships.

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  1. Univ Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

    A P Queiroz, R Hayashida & M M Neiva

  2. Instituto Agronômico do Paraná (IAPAR), Londrina,, Paraná, Brasil

    B M Favetti

  3. Univ Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brasil

    M L M Grande

  4. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária – Embrapa Trigo, Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

    A R Panizzi

  5. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária – Embrapa Soja, Endereço: Embrapa Soja, Caixa Postal 231, Londrina, Paraná, 86001-970, Brasil

    A F Bueno

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AP Queiroz, AF Bueno, and AR Panizzi contributed to the study design and wrote the paper. AP Queiroz conducted the sampling. AF Bueno and AR Panizzi contributed reagents/material/analysis tools. AP Queiroz, BM Favetti, R Hayahida, MLM Grande, and MN Neiva conducted the experiments. All authors have read and approved the manuscript.

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Queiroz, A.P., Favetti, B.M., Hayashida, R. et al. Effect of the Ages of Parasitoid and Host Eggs on Telenomus podisi (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) Parasitism. Neotrop Entomol 48, 974–982 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-019-00724-2

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