Some Ecological Factors Affecting Population Growth of the Rust-Red Flour Beetle Tribolium castaneum Herbest (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) I: Space and Temperature PDF

Keywords

beetle, space, temperature

Abstract

The effect of surface area (space) on the growth of 2 populations of an initial size of 5 and 10 female Tribolium castaneum per container in a fixed weight of wheat flour at 28 degree Celsius and 31 degrees Celsius was investigated for 9 months. Growth rates of these populations were similar to both temperatures. The population density was oscillating at 28 degree Celsius and more or less regular at 31 degrees Celsius