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The cabinet accommodates 920 trays that normally produce 450,000 or more adult 

 weevils. One person can handle the cabinet and collect the adults from the 

 cage. 



297. , and Lindig. 0. H. 1979. Oviposition cage and auxiliary equipment 

 for mass rearing of boll weevils. U.S. Sci. Educ. Adm. Adv. Agric. 

 Technol. South. Ser. (ISSN 0193-3728), No. 5, 5 pp. 



Equipment was developed to reduce the time and labor required to handle and 

 feed the large numbers of boll weevils used for egg production in a mass-rearing 

 operation. The equipment, all of which can be handled by one person, consists 

 of large oviposition cages, which accommodate 9,000 adult weevils each, a cage 

 shaker, and a cage conveyor. The shaker simplifies changing the food pellets 

 daily, and the conveyor holds and moves up to 150 oviposition cages at a time. 

 One person can feed a cage of weevils in about 1 minute with the equipment. 



298. ; Lindig, 0. H.; and McLaughlin, R. E. 1974, Flash sterilizers: 

 sterilizing artificial diets for insects. J. Econ. Entomol. 67: 689. 



Extensive use of the shell and tube sterilizer in the Cast Rearing Laboratory, 

 Mississippi State, Miss., has subsequently proved that it will satisfactorily 

 sterilize and handle the artificial diets for boll weevils when operated 

 properly. An automatically >perated temperature controller and valve, Barber- 

 Coleman Models 532 and MP 481, were added to the units to control the steri- 

 lizing and cooling temperatures during actual operation. These additions 

 eliminated the time and labor necessary for manual regulation to maintain 

 desired temperatures. 



299. ; Lindig, 0. H.; Roberson, J.; and Sikorowski, P. 1979. System for 

 mass rearing boll weevil in a laboratory. Miss. Agric. For. Exp. Stn. 

 Tech. Bull. 95, 15 pp. . 



The system described was tested for six weeks in 1976 and for eight weeks in 1977. 



