Uttarakhand Ayurved University

Egg Cannibalism Affects Growth Development, Reproduction, and Fitness of Aphidophagous Coccinellids, Hippodamia variegata, and Menochilus sexmaculatus

ABSTRACT We investigated how egg cannibalism affects growth, development, reproduction and progeny fitness of aphidophagous coccinellids, viz. Menochilus sexmaculatus (Fabricius) and Hippodamia variegata (Goeze). Egg cannibalism provided immediate benefits to first instars by exp...