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are still in use today, and all are adequate for production levels of 100,000 

 adults per week or less. Major changes in procedures and priorities were indi- 

 cated, however, when the demands for boll weevils became millions per week. For 

 an example, when only 10 to 20 gal of diet a day are required, autoclaving is 

 an effective and efficient method of diet sterilization, but when daily require- 

 ments are several hundred or several thousand gallons, autoclaving is impractical, 

 if not impossible. The same holds true in the forming and wax-coating of the 

 oviposition diet. The implementation of flash sterilizers and pellet-forming 

 machines solved most of these problems. Today, the quantity of diet sterilized 

 and oviposition pellets produced is limited only by the size and number of 

 machines one wants to operate. 



522. . 1979. A replacement for cottonseed meal and meats in boll weevil 



diets. J. Econ. Entomol.' 72: 291-292. 

 The cottonseed meal and cottonseed meats in the adults and larval diets of 

 AnthonoTT.us t; rand is grand is Boheman can be replaced successfully with Pharmamedia®. 

 Percent egg hatch was significantly higher when females were fed Pharamedia diet. 

 The use of this commercially available material saved time, equipment, labor, 

 and electrical energy in preparing diets. 



573. 7 and Malone, 0. L. 1973. Oviposition of boll weevUs fed diets con- 

 taining germinated cottonseed puree or cottonseed meats puree. J. Econ. 

 Entomol. 66: 566-567. 

 Use of the cottonseed meats puree reduced cost of the diet by llc/liter, 34.4%. 

 The 16.1% fewer weevils and therefore the 16.1% less diet that would be needed 

 to produce the number of eggs produced by the germinated cottonseed diet plus 

 the 34.4% reduction in the cost of the diet would be a direct savings of ca. 

 $100/nillion insects. Also, indirect savings would result, because less labor 

 would be required to produce the diet pellets and to feed fewer weevils, and 



