Fertility Table of an Exotic Parasitoid, Telenomus remus Nixon (Hymenoptera:Scelionidae) on Spodoptera litura (Fabricius)

Fecundity studies on Telenomus remus, an exotic parasitoid of Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) indicated that in individual rearing, net reproductive rate was higher (120.53) and the population increased with an infinitesimal rate of 0.399 and a finite rate of 1.491. In group rearing, the corresponding figures were lower, being 65.03, 0.348 and 1.416, respectively. There was a preponderance of females in the individual rearing method, while a balanced sex ratio was obtained in group rearing.