ABSTRACT
The Asian corn borer (ACB), Ostrinia furnacalis , is an important insect pest in the East and Southeast Asian countries, such as Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. It causes serious damage to corn, sorghum, millet, and cotton. To support research on management of this noxious pest, it is fundamental to establish artificial rearing techniques. The artificially reared ACB were used to screen sorghum and cotton varieties for resistance to ACB. It is well known that efficient artificial rearing is the most important prerequisite to conducting a sterile technique program, either using chemosterilants or irradiation. Although Chinese entomologists have conducted much significant work on ACB since the early 1950s, a very important project, namely, measuring the dispersal distance of ACB adults, has never been carried out because of its technical difficulty. Success in rearing the ACB enabled the artificial rearing of ACB parasites.
