Dietary self-selection for vitamins and lipid by larvae of the corn earworm, Heliothis zea
1988
Schiff, N.M. | Waldbauer, G.P. | Friedman, S.
Last instar larvae of the corn earworm, Heliothis zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), require lipid and certain vitamins in their diet in order to complete larval development. When experimental larvae were offered two nutritionally incomplete diets, each lacking a different one of the requirements, they invariably ate from both diets, self-selecting a mixture that was nutritionally superior to either diet alone.
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