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Abstract A. Artificial diet for larvae : The. principal goal of the present investigation was to compose an inexpensive artificial diet more suitable for normal development of the Egyptian cotton leafworm Spodoptera littoralis Boisd. Several experiments were conducted to obtain this proper artificial diet and to compare its efficiency with that reared on the two natural hosts o The obtained results could be summarized as follows : The effect of some components in the in the basic diet : Some ingredients of the basic artificial diet were liable to successive changes in their amounts in order to obtain the most convenient amount to be added in the proposed final diet. The more suitable amount from each ingredient was a s follows. |