The effects of larval diet on adult life-history traits of the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

Title:

The effects of larval diet on adult life-history traits of the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

Creator:

Gobbi, Paola, Martínez-Sánchez, Anabel, and Rojo, Santos

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:4fa0a3c4-69d3-4f4a-a4f0-9f9201f9d095
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Subject:

Zoologie, zoologie, entomologie, Diptera, Stratiomyidae, Hermetia illucens, larval diet, wing morphometry, immature stages, ovarian development, hen feed, meat meal, 2, and 59

Type:

article, články, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Larvae of Hermetia illucens feed on different types of decomposing organic matter and their development depends on the quality and quantity of food ingested. In this study the effect of three artificial diets was analyzed, namely hen feed, meat meal and a mixture of these two diets. The effects of diet on ovarian development, size, mortality, duration of the larval and pupal stages and sex ratio were studied. Results indicate that the meat meal diet was the worst of the three diets in terms of percentage mortality and duration of the larval and pupal stages. We conclude that food ingested by the black soldier fly larvae determines both the physiological and morphological development of the adults., Paola Gobbi, Anabel Martínez-Sánchez, Santos Rojo., and Obsahuje seznam literatury

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2013 Volume:110 | Number:3

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