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Anticontaminants to replace formaldehyde in an artificial diet used for rearing the sugarcane borer can affect the parasitoids performance?

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Formaldehyde has been widely used as an anticontaminant in artificial diets for rearing insects. However, the substance is highly toxic to humans. The objective of this work was to verify if replacing formaldehyde by acetylsalicylic acid, sorbic acid, or benzoic acid in artificial diet to use for rearing Diatraea saccharalis affect biological traits of its parasitoids Trichogramma galloi and Cotesia flavipes produced in this host species. The experimental design was the completely randomized with the following treatments (dose/diet): acetylsalicylic acid (3.7 g), sorbic acid (3.7 g), benzoic acid (3.7 g), formaldehyde (1.7 ml), and control. The studies of the biological characteristics of T. galloi and C. flavipes consisted of 25 replicates. For T. galloi, each replicate consisted of a mass of 30 eggs of D. saccharalis that were exposed for 24 h to a T. galloi female which was less than 24 h old. For C. flavipes, each replicate used a third instar D. saccharalis caterpillar oviposited by a C. flavipes female less than 24 h old. The biological characteristics evaluated were parasitism, emergence, progeny, sexual ratio and longevity. The use of alternative anticontaminants tested in the artificial diets of D. saccharalis is feasible for the production of T. galloi and C. flavipes parasitoids.

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The authors thank the support of the collaborators, an Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD), an Embrapa Agropecuária Oeste and ‘Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior’ (CAPES) scholarships awarded.

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  1. Departamento de Entomologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

    Suélen Cristina da Silva Moreira & Ivana Fernandes da Silva

  2. Embrapa Agropecuária Oeste, Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

    Crébio José Ávila & Harley Nonato de Oliveira

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SCS Moreira; IF da Silva; CJ Ávila; H N de Oliveira writing and preparation of the manuscript, SCS Moreira data collection, SCS Moreira; CJ Ávila; H N Oliveira and IF Silva data analysis. IF Silva; CJ Ávila and HN Oliveira final revision of the manuscript.

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da Silva Moreira, S.C., da Silva, I.F., Ávila, C.J. et al. Anticontaminants to replace formaldehyde in an artificial diet used for rearing the sugarcane borer can affect the parasitoids performance?. Int J Trop Insect Sci 40, 1079–1084 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-020-00182-z

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