Age specific fecundity life table of South American tomato leaf miner, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) on tomato

Abstract

The age specific fecundity life table studies of Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) were conducted at room temperature 25 ± 2 °C and 75 ± 2 percent RH on tomato in Department of Entomology, S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati. Age specific fecundity life table of T. absoluta revealed that the net reproductive rate (R0), intrinsic rate of increase (rm), mean generation time (Tc), corrected generation time (T), finite rate of increase (λ) and weekly multiplication of population (l7) were R0 = 40.18 individuals per female, 0.19 (female progeny/female/day), Tc = 30.16 days, T = 28.94 days, λ = 1.20 and λ7 = 35.83, respectively.