Morphometric Study of Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella L.) under Laboratory Condition
Simran Mahapatra, Subhashree Subhasmita Paikaray, Samit Pal, Chandan Kumar Panigrahi, Nishismita Parida, Amrit Mohapatra, Satya Narayan Satapathy, Swoyam Singh
International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · pp. 1069–1073 · Published 17 Oct 2023
10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i113256Abstract
The present study was carried out in PG Laboratory, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha on morphometry of greater wax moth (G. mellonella L.). Under laboratory condition, we observed the incubation period of greater wax moth was 8.55±0.42 days. The seven successive larval instars lasted for the following number of days i.e.,4.64±0.36, 5.04±0.51, 6.05±0.62, 7.07±0.41, 8.15±0. 59, 8.41±0.52 and 9.12±0.47 days. Prepupa and pupa lasted, 1.69±0.52 and 8.63±0.38 days,respectively. Adult males lived for 16.79±1.48 days on average, compared to 6.92±0.49 days for females. Females had pre-ovipositional, ovipositional and post-ovipositional durations of 1.13±0.33, 3.78±0.43 and 1.19±0.28 days, respectively. On average females lay 784.01±42.77eggs per female and 167.91±43.64 eggs per female on each day.
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