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Effects of Capsaicin on the Growth, Development, and Nutritional Profiles of Black Soldier Flies Fed a High-Fat Diet

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Effects of Capsaicin on the Growth, Development, and Nutritional Profiles of Black Soldier Flies Fed a High-Fat Diet This study evaluated the effects of capsaicin on the growth and development and the nutritional composition of black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) under high-fat substrate conditions. The results showed that, under a high-fat background, low levels of capsaicin (0.01–0.05%) had a relatively small adve...

Geographic Information System Applications in Bee Research

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Geographic Information System Applications in Bee Research Bees play crucial ecological, economic, and environmental roles, and research on them increasingly includes a spatial dimension. Geographic Information Systems (GISs) enable the acquisition, storage, analysis, management, and visualization of spatial data. However, GIS applications in bee research h...

Tactile Sensing During Backward Locomotion in the Mole Cricket

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📚included in the Special Issue "Insects Sensory Ecology: From Natural Environments to Neural Mechanisms"
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Tactile Sensing During Backward Locomotion in the Mole Cricket Subterranean locomotion challenges animals to maintain orientation and efficiently navigate confined spaces where vision is limited and local geometry is uncertain. Mole crickets (Gryllotalpidae), which regularly travel through self-excavated tunnels, provide a useful model for studying mechanosenso...

Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Detoxification and Immunity in Honeybees (Apis mellifera)

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Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Detoxification and Immunity in Honeybees (Apis mellifera) Honeybee (Apis mellifera) health is governed by the integrated action of detoxification, immunity, and microbiota within complex environmental contexts. The coordinated detoxification system (DETOXome), primarily active in the midgut, fat body, and Malpighian tubules, includes cytochrome P450s, glut...

Valorization of Organic Food Surpluses and Brewer’s Spent Grains into Organic Insect Protein for Replacing Soybean in Post-Weaning Piglets

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Valorization of Organic Food Surpluses and Brewer’s Spent Grains into Organic Insect Protein for Replacing Soybean in Post-Weaning Piglets The conversion of agro-industrial co-products and unsold organic plant-based residues into black soldier fly (BSF; Hermetia illucens (L. 1758)) proteins was assessed for use in organic post-weaning piglet diets in Belgium. A total of 72 crossbred female piglets (Landrace × Pietrain) were enrolled i...

Brightness Discrimination in the Crepuscular Moth Grapholita molesta (Busck, 1916) Under Dappled Light

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Brightness Discrimination in the Crepuscular Moth Grapholita molesta (Busck, 1916) Under Dappled Light The light environment in orchards is highly heterogeneous, characterized by dappled light caused by sunlight filtering through plant canopies, and poses a challenge for the color perception of insects. For the crepuscular moth Grapholita molesta, a global pest of fruit trees, females can visually di...

Pre-Emptive Upregulation of Antimicrobial Peptides by Dietary Propolis Improves Ethanol Tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster

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Molecular Composition and Ligand Binding Characteristics of Native Ionotropic GABA Receptors in Rice Stem Borer, Chilo suppressalis The ionotropic γ-aminobutyric acid receptor (iGABAR) is an important insecticidal molecular target. However, the native iGABARs composition remains unknown in insect. Here, CsRdl1, truncated transcripts of CsRdl2 and CsLcch3 were obtained in the rice stem borer (RSB), Chilo suppressalis Walker. The...

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"Insect Pest Control from Chemical to Biotechnological Approach: Constrains and Challenges"

🎓 by Stefano Civolani, Massimo Bariselli, Riccardo Osti and Giovanni Bernacchia

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Insect Pest Control from Chemical to Biotechnological Approach: Constrains and Challenges The large growth in the global population requires new solutions for the control of harmful insects that compete for our food. Changing regulatory requirements and public perception, together with the continuous evolution of resistance to conventional insecticides, also require, in addition to innov...

Comparative Analysis of Gut Microbiota in Eri Silkworm (Samia ricini) Larvae Fed on Different Food Plants

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📚included in the Special Issue "Insect Microbiome and Immunity—2nd Edition"
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Comparative Analysis of Gut Microbiota in Eri Silkworm (Samia ricini) Larvae Fed on Different Food Plants Diet plays a critical role in shaping the composition of gut microbiota in insects. Samia ricini, an economically important Lepidoptera insect, is a polyphagous herbivore that offers a useful model for studying dietary effects on the animal gut microbiome. Here, we fed S. ricini larvae with differen...