Table 1.

Recipe for the modified artificial diet for M. separata

Component A		Component B
Corn flour	2–3 g	Glucose	1.8–2.4 g
Corn leaf flour	4–5 g	L-Ascorbic acid	0.3–0.4 g
Soybean flour	2.3–2.8 g	Distilled water	25 ml
Yeast extract	4–5 g	Component C
Casein	1–1.5 g	Distilled water	75 ml
Cholesterol	0.06–0.08 g	Agar	1.7–2 g
		Sorbic acid	0.1–0.2 g

Leaves of corn seedling were dehydrated with oven and were ground into powder using the pestle. Component A and B were mixed, then the component C was added