Qualitative and quantitative effects of dietary components on sex ratio, total protein and a glycogen level of Pimpla turionellae L. adults

In the study, the effects of the diets which was prepared by increasing and decreasing with a ratio of 50% or completely omitting lipid, amino acid, salt mixture, sucrose and RNA in the control diet on the level of glycogen (total glycogen of the female in the life span) and protein (total protein of the female in the life span) with sex ratio of P.turionellae have been investigated.Although the meridic diet containing any lipid mixture didn?t have a significant effect on the ratio of adult emergence, increasing and decreasing amount of lipid significantly affected male and female emergenceIncreasing the amino acid with a ratio of 50% or omitted it in control diet decreased the total adult ratios when compared with control diet. The maximum total adult emergence in this group occurred as 85.18% when the insects fed synthetic diet contains 1.5g. amino acid mixture.The insects lived only 7 days without sucrose, increasing and decreasing the amount of sucrose in control diet affected total female and male emergence positively according to control diet. None of the tested salt mixture any significant affects the total adult emergence negatively.One main findings of this study is that the some meridic diet did increase the P. turionellae?s sex ratio whereas reduce its glycogen amount. We indicated that there was a negative relationship between female emergence and glycogen level. None of the tested salt, lipid mixture and RNA concentrations did not negative affect on the total protein level.