摘要 |
A tray for use in mass rearing of insects, particularly beetles such as boll weevils, in an artificial environment from incubation, through hatching and growth; and including a compartmented tray with multiple cup-like compartments arranged in multiple rows with shallow egg receiving recesses between the compartment of pairs of rows and communicating with upper edge portions of the compartments through shallow crawl passages; and with the rows of compartments in communication with shallow air access passages at the upper edge portions thereof peripherally removed from the crawl passages; and the entire compartmented tray being covered by an imperforate sheet of plastic material forming the upper closing walls of the several recesses, passages and compartments.
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