Effects of Diet Quality and Temperature on Stable Fly (Diptera: Muscidae) Development.

ABSTRACT: The effects of diet quality and temperature on the development time and size of stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.), was evaluated. Both development time and size varied relative to diet quality and temperature, and their effects were additive. Diet quality and temperature made similar contributions to the variance in size whereas temperature was responsible for >97% of the variance in development time. Regression analysis predicted the shortest development time, egg to adult, to be 12.7 days at 32 °C and 70% nutrients. Egg to adult development varied curvilinearly relative to diet quality and temperature on the degree day 10 (DD10) scale taking 261 DD10 at 30 °C and 50% nutrients. The thermal threshold was 11.5 °C with a thermal constant of 248. Very few stable flies developed to adult

SUBMITTER: Florez-Cuadros M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6681194 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature