02905nam a2200265 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000170006024501040007726001970018152020000037865000230237865000140240165000160241565000240243165300190245565300200247465300250249470000190251970000200253870000200255870000190257870000220259770000200261921750002025-05-08       2024    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aSUTIL, W. P.  aCan solid diet increase the shelf-life of Telenomus remus for field release?h[electronic resource]  aIn: CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE ENTOMOLOGIA, 29.; CONGRESSO LATINO-AMERICANO DE ENTOMOLOGIA, 13., 2024, Uberlândia. Anais... Viçosa: Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil, 2024. p. 854 resumo.c2024  aThe egg parasitoid Telenomus remus has emerged as one of the potential candidates for use in the biological control of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda around the world. Currently, there are no ready-to-use packages for its application as a biological control (CB) agenta and the use of this one in biological control requires a better understanding of its biology and the development of a cost-effective mass production method. In this context, this work aimed to evaluate a solid diet for adults of T. remus that can be used inside capsules designed for parasitoid release. Two different experiments were carried out. In the first experiment, the parasitism capacity of T. remus was evaluated using a solid diet (honey soaked in cotton strings) and small drops of honey placed inside tubes to provide food for the adults. In the second, the periods of storage (treatments in days) were evaluated: 2 (control), 4, 6, and 8 days after the emergence of the first adults inside the capsules. The following biological variables were assessed: daily parasitism, lifetime parasitism and sex ratio. The results were evaluated to test the normality of residuals, homogeneity of variance of treatments, and ANOVA. Then, the means were compared by Tukey's test, using the statistical analysis program SAS. The honey droplet and honey-soaked string diets were similar. This solid-honey diet should be used to feed T. remus inside the release capsules, enabling the release of fed adults, which will reduce parasitoid mortality when pupae are exposed. Additionally, the solid diet inside the capsule enables the bioinsecticide to be stored for at least 6 days after the beginning of parasitoid emergence before being released in the field. This makes the release process of the parasitoid more flexible and attractive to farmers, besides being extremely helpful for waiting a few days before releasing the parasitoid due to bad weather conditions or other reasons that require delaying the release.  aBiological control  aNutrition  aParasitoids  aControle Biológico  aEgg parasitoid  aOvo parasitoide  aParasitoid nutrition1 aROSWADOSKI, L.1 aCARNEIRO, G. S.1 aFROIO, E. A. T.1 aCRUZ, J. V. S.1 aCOLMENAREZ, Y. C.1 aBUENO, A. de F.