The Effects of Various Carbohydrates and Tannic Acid on the Food Consumption and Growth Performance of Uresiphita gilvata (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

Abstract

The effects of carbohydrates and tannen on the development and food preferences of Uresiphita gilvata larvae were investigated in this study. In addition, with the addition of tannin, the importance of plant-herbivore co-evolution in the food choice of the larvae was mentioned. For this reason, thirteen different artificial diets were prepared. Each diet contains sucrose, glucose, galactose, maltose, fructose, arabinose, mannose, or starch at the same concentration. To investigate the effect of tannic acid, 5 % tannic acid was added to the diets each containing sucrose, starch, glucose or maltose at the same concentration. According to the results of the study, sucrose was consumed by larvae more than glucose and fructose. However, the maximum food consumption of U. gilvata larvae was on the diet containing arabinose and their minimum consumption was on the diet containing mannose. Galactose is more consumed by larvae. However, intake galactose can not converted to pupal lipid by larvae. The addition of tannin to the diet reduced the amount of consumption of diet the dry pupal weight and lipid amount of pupae. However, the addition of tannin to the diet increased the amount of protein and extended the development time of pupae.

Effect of Mammea americana Aqueous Extract on the Control of the Coffee Red Spider Mite

“…It turns the leaves astringent and unpalatable, preventing herbivory, and also can interfere with specific metabolic vials and physiological processes of arthropods (França et al, 2020;Couto et al, 2021;Paiva et al, 2023). These compounds can reduce the food intake rate (Suzana-Milan & Salvadori, 2023), growing rate (Fuller-Thomson, 2019;Sandoval-Rivas & Romero-Garrido, 2023), feed efficiency, protein digestibility, among other effects (LENORA & Senthilkumar, 2017;Altun et al, 2020;Perkovich & Ward, 2020).…”