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A METHOD FOR REARING DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE HOPK. (COLEOPTERA: SCOLYTIDAE) FROM EGGS TO PUPAE ON HOST TISSUE WITH OR WITHOUT A FUNGAL COMPLEMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

D.B. Strongman
D.B. Strongman
Affiliation:
Canadian Forestry Service — Maritimes, PO Box 4000, Fredericton, New Bmnswick, Canada E3B 5P7
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The symbiosis between bark beetles and microorganisms, mostly fungi, has been investigated and reviewed by Graham (1967) and Whitney (1982). Bark beetles and their habitat fungi have been studied separately but a suitable method for studying them in combined culture is lacking. To study bark beetles in the laboratory, a method for axenic rearing was developed by Bedard (1966), then improved by Whitney and Spanier (1982). Beetle development was retarded or nil without the addition of Brewer's yeast to the diet (H.S. Whitney, Pacific Forest Research Station (PFRC), Victoria, BC, pers. comm.). The inclusion of yeast in the diet precludes studies of symbiosis, such as the role of fungi in beetle nutrition. I describe a method for rearing bark beetles with or without a fungal complement to investigate this symbiosis

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 119 , Issue 2 , February 1987 , pp. 207 - 208
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1987

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