Treatment of non choise
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International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR) (2014) Volume 15, No 2, pp 343-354
Instar predators used were 1, 2 and 3. Petri dishes that had been supplied filled with chunks of fresh cassava leaves. After that into a petri dish infested 2nd instar of larvae P. manihoti, 450 nymphs prey for each treatment. Furthermore the different predator larvae instar put into a petri dish filled with prey. Observations were made every day until the predator to change to the next stadia. At each observation, the addition of cassava leaf if necessary. Treatment was repeated 20 replications. Counting the number of prey eaten conducted at the end of each stadia predator, by counting the number of remaining prey.