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Fredrik Regler and Heinz Bernhardt
This study addresses the challenge of subjective remounting decisions in calf and heifer rearing, typically driven by the animal caretaker?s feelings and experience, lacking a robust data foundation. Key factors such as developmental delays, diseases, or...
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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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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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Regiane Cristina de Oliveira, Pedro Hiroshi Passos Ikuno, Dirceu Pratissoli, José Romário de Carvalho, William Wyatt Hoback and Bruno Alexis Zachrisson Salamina
Brazil is one of the largest producers of pulses globally, and soybean ranks highly in terms of production. However, pests increase crop production costs and affect oilseed production and quality. Pests are primarily controlled by chemicals, leading to c...
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Ane?ka Kopecká, Lenka Kourimská, Petra ?kvorová, Michal Kurecka and Martin Kulma
The nutritional quality of insects is related to many factors, including their rearing conditions. In this study, the effects of temperature on the contents of crude protein, lipids, ash, and amino acids and the body size and weight of Tenebrio molitor l...
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Zeyu Lu, Lingtian Zhang, Qing Mu, Junyang Liu, Yu Chen, Haoyuan Wang, Yanjun Zhang, Rui Su, Ruijun Wang, Zhiying Wang, Qi Lv, Zhihong Liu, Jiasen Liu, Yunhua Li and Yanhong Zhao
Due to recent innovations in gene editing technology, great progress has been made in livestock breeding, with researchers rearing gene-edited pigs, cattle, sheep, and other livestock. Gene-editing technology involves knocking in, knocking out, deleting,...
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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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Lucrezia Cilenti, Nicola Lago, Antonio Oscar Lillo, Daniel Li Veli, Tommaso Scirocco and Giorgio Mancinelli
The current invasion of the Mediterranean Sea by the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus requires the implementation of effective strategies of control and management. In native areas, the species is highly appreciated as a hard- and soft-shell seafoo...
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Nan Liu, Yulu Yan, Longwei Yang, Yufei Xu, Huiyan Jiang, Zhihao Ye, Hao Wang, Junyi Gai and Guangnan Xing
Clanis bilineata tsingtauica Mell (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae, CBT), as a traditional edible insect, is becoming popular in China due to its high nutritional value, but production needs to be improved to meet the expanding market. In the present study, CBT ...
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Nivette M. Pérez-Pérez, Matthew Poach, Bradley Stevens, Stacy L. Smith and Gulnihal Ozbay
Declines in commercial crustacean species (such as lobsters, king crab, etc.) have caused an increased interest in the harvest of the red deep-sea crab Chaceon quinquedens. The red deep-sea crab is a federally managed fishery; however, little is known ab...
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