HIBISCUS CANNABINUS L. (MALVACEAE) AS ALTERNATE HOST PLANT FOR MASS CULTURING OF HOST PARACOCCUSMARGINATUS WILLIAMS AND GRANARA DE WILLINK (HEMIPTERA: PSEUDOCOCCIDAE) FOR THE MASS PRODUCTION OF EXOTIC PARASITOIDS

摘要

Mass production of exotic parasitoids depends on the availability of hosts, under laboratory condition. Under high temperature conditions it is very difficult to maintain potato sprouts for mass production of host Paracoccus marginatus. In the presentstudy Hibiscus can nab in us has been successfully used as alternate host plant for the mass production of exotic parasitoids.