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Mariastela Vrontaki, Christina Adamaki-Sotiraki, Christos I. Rumbos, Anastasios Anastasiadis and Christos G. Athanassiou
Amidst the escalating global demand for protein-rich livestock feed, there?s an urgent call to explore innovative alternatives. Insects, renowned for their rich protein, lipid, and nutrient profiles, offer a sustainable solution. Integrating agricultural...
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Buajiram Ahmat, Ting Yang, Chuan Ma and Cheng Zong
The mass rearing of high-quality queen bees is an essential beekeeping practice for producing new queens to maintain colony productivity. A strain of high royal-jelly-producing bees (RJBs; Apis mellifera ligustica) in China exhibits high potential for th...
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Noémie Gonzalez, Marc Fournier, Rosemarije Buitenhuis and Eric Lucas
Syrphine hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphinae) are important predators of aphids in agricultural crops. While the use of flowering plants to enhance their efficacy is well established, recent research has developed an artificial diet for adult hoverflies consi...
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Ryohei Tatsuno, Miwako Shikina, Yuta Yamamoto, Yoko Kanahara, Tomohiro Takatani and Osamu Arakawa
To investigate tetrodotoxin (TTX) retention by the toxic goby Yongeichthys criniger, rearing experiments feeding nontoxic diets were conducted using 12 (Group I) and 17 (Group II) specimens collected from a natural environment. The specimens were reared ...
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Mary Grace Sedanza, Hee-Jin Kim and Cyril Glenn Satuito
The potential use of the sea anemone Aiptasiomorpha minuta as an agent for controlling biofouling on cultured oysters and the optimum culture conditions for its mass culture were evaluated. Field experiments showed that nineteen species (eight phyla), in...
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Shun Wang, Dejun Feng, Fukun Gui and Zhijing Xu
A pile?net enclosure aquaculture facility, deployed in inshore waters, is a sustainable and ecological aquaculture pattern for rearing fish and other aquatic animals of economic value in China. It is essential to study the maximum force on and deformatio...
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Kristina K. Gonzales and Immo A. Hansen
Mosquito-borne diseases are responsible for more than a million human deaths every year. Modern mosquito control strategies such as sterile insect technique (SIT), release of insects carrying a dominant lethal (RIDL), population replacement strategies (P...
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Fabiola Torres, Marcela A. Rodríguez, Blas Lavandero, Eduardo Fuentes-Contreras
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Codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), is the key pest of apple and walnut production worldwide. Among other variables, successful management of this pest is dependent on adult dispersal at the local scale. Body mass and wing geom...
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Isabelle Frère, Carole Balthazar, Ahmed Sabri, Thierry Hance
Biological control is beginning to be more commonly used, especially in greenhouses. The inundatory release of insects, especially parasitoids, requires a thorough knowledge of their biology and of mass-rearing techniques. Moreover, to synchronize releas...
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