TY  - JOUR
N2  - Fall army worm Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is one of the important
invasive pests causing economic losses to maize, sorghum and other millets. This study aims to develop
suitable cost-effective crop based artificial diet for its rearing and evaluates the biology under laboratory
conditions. Study revealed that the least life cycle period (egg to adult) was obtained with sorghum+
chickpea based diet (D1: 31-39 days) as compared to sorghum based diet(D2: 37-44 days) and maize+
chickpea based diet (D3: 40-48 days). Fully developed larvae measured longer, broader and heavier
when reared on D1, also the fecundity was maximum. A cheap artificial diet to rear S. frugiperda is thus
developed in this study.
N1  - The authors thank the Research Technician Mr
Rajendra Kumar for help in the laboratory rearing.
The research was partially supported by the CGIAR
CRP-Grain Legumes Dry land Cereals and it is duly
acknowledged.
AV  - public
KW  - Spodoptera frugiperda
KW  -  Artificial diet
KW  -  Sorghum
KW  -  Chickpea
KW  -  Maize
KW  -  Fecundity
KW  -  Biology
KW  -  Morphometrics
KW  -  Length
KW  -  Width
KW  -  Weight
KW  -  Lifecycle
A1  - Jaba, J
A1  - Sathish, K
A1  - Mishra, S P
TI  - Biology of fall army worm Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) on artificial diets
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5958/0974-8172.2020.00135.2
JF  - Indian Journal of Entomology
Y1  - 2020/09//
ID  - icrisat11672
SN  - 0367-8288
VL  - 82
PB  - The Entomological Society of India
IS  - 3
ER  -