Effect of rearing diets on bait preferences of the German cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae) and the smoky-brown cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattidae)

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  • チャバネゴキブリおよびクロゴキブリの餌嗜好性におよぼす飼育餌の影響

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Blattella germanica and Periplaneta fuliginosa were reared with three types of diets (canned beef, fresh cabbage and onions [vegetables], and rat chow) for given days. When several baits were provided to the cockroaches at the same time, the consumption of kelp bait was largest in the two species of cockroach adults in all rearing conditions. Moreover, the bait-preference patterns of P. fuliginosa adults did not change even when the after eclosion period and diet conditions in the nymphal period were changed. In contrast, bait preferences of the two species of cockroach nymphs remarkably changed according to a difference in diet conditions. Generally, consumption of kelp bait was largest in canned beef rearing, and that of silkworm pupa bait was largest in vegetable and rat chow rearing. Moreover, early-instar nymphs of P. fuliginosa had a greater preference for silkworm pupa bait compared with late-instar nymphs. These results indicate that bait preferences are different between adults and nymphs. The change in bait preferences is large in the nymphs, and bait preferences of P. fuliginosa nymphs change during the nymphal period.

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  • CRID
    1390001204940536960
  • NII Article ID
    130004910591
  • DOI
    10.7601/mez.65.167
  • ISSN
    21855609
    04247086
  • Text Lang
    en
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    • CiNii Articles
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