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Life tables for the gram pod borer,Heliothis armigera Hubner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on pea

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Studies on the innate capacity for increase in numbers ofHeliothis armigera were carried out at 26±1°C temperature on pea podsPisum sativum. The net reproductive rate (R 0) representing the total female births was 407·39. The population increased with an infinitesimal rate (rm) of 0·1346 and finite rate (λ) 1·14 per female per day. A generation was completed in 44·64 days. The population on reaching a stable age distribution comprised approximately 99 per cent of immature stages.

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  1. Department of Entomology, Marathwada Agricultural University, 431401, Parbhani

    G G Bilapate & V M Pawar

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Bilapate, G.G., Pawar, V.M. Life tables for the gram pod borer,Heliothis armigera Hubner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on pea. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci (Animal Sciences) 87, 119–121 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03179269

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