The overall goal of this cohort-based life table approach is to directly quantify the rate of mortality of an insect population in the field and identify the source of mortality. This method can help us answer key questions in population dynamics
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Life tables allow quantification of the sources and rates of mortality in insect populations and contribute to understanding, predicting and manipulating population dynamics in agroecosystems. Methods for conducting and analyzing cohort-based life tables in the field for an insect with sessile immature life stages are presented.