@article{Defilippo_Grisendi_Savoldelli_Torri_Dottori_Bonilauri_2019, title={Effect of temperature and diet on Plodia interpunctella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) development with special reference to Isomegalen diagram and accumulated degree days}, volume={51}, url={https://www.pagepressjournals.org/jear/article/view/7855}, DOI={10.4081/jear.2019.7855}, abstractNote={<p>Immature development times of the Indian meal moth, <em>Plodia interpunctella</em> were studied in the laboratory at four different constant temperatures (20, 23, 25, 27°C) reared on a standard diet (D1) and chocolate (D2). The minimal duration of development from oviposition to adult emergence was inversely related to temperature, ranging from 2.3±0.36 days to 50.5±0.5 days for D1 and from 36.7±0.53 days to 106.73±1.10 days for D2 for 27°C and 20°C, respectively. The minimum development threshold (tL), obtained from linear regression model of the development rates at the four studied constant temperature regimes, for total immature development is 15.3°C and 17.1°C for D1 and D2, respectively and the accumulated degree days (ADD) for<em> P. interpunctella</em> is 249.51°C for D1 and 358.4°C for D2 above the threshold.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research}, author={Defilippo, F. and Grisendi, A. and Savoldelli, S. and Torri, D. and Dottori, M. and Bonilauri, P.}, year={2019}, month={Aug.} }