Heath Andrew MacMillan

This study shows that cricket nymphs clear microplastics through frass production before moulting, and that moulting timing is not affected by continuous microplastic ingestion.

This study shows that farmed crickets reared on a high-inclusion spent grain diet maintain stable performance over five generations, with low-inclusion diets improving survival and yield.

This study investigates how insect body size and mouth size influence microplastic ingestion and breakdown, finding that crickets consume plastics when particles can be whole-consumed and break down larger MPs as they grow.

This study shows ecological stoichiometry and life history theory predict phenotypic adaptation in Drosophila, while genomic data fail to predict the SNPs and genes involved.

This study shows temperature has a greater impact than diet on developmental performance in two cricket species, primarily through growth delays and physiological limits at thermal extremes.

Engineered spermidine-secreting Saccharomyces boulardii improves olfactory memory in Drosophila without affecting locomotion.

This study shows that latent chilling injury in Drosophila melanogaster is sex-specific and influenced by prior thermal acclimation and recovery temperature.

This study investigates how thermal acclimation affects spreading depolarization in Drosophila melanogaster, showing enhanced resistance to cold- and anoxic SD and interactive effects on TPP and SD propagation.

This study describes the growth, development, and reproductive traits of Gryllodes sigillatus to inform mass-rearing practices and colony management.

This study evaluates the viability of using brewery waste as a protein source for farmed crickets, finding it supports survival and growth with minimal impact, though full replacement slightly reduces body mass.

This study shows that larger diet particle sizes increase cricket growth speed without affecting final body size, suggesting potential for improving mass rearing efficiency.

This study optimizes cricket diets using nutritional ecology to maximize yield metrics like survival and adult body size in mass rearing.

This study shows that cold acclimation and a high-potassium diet together improve cold tolerance in Drosophila by enhancing intracellular K+ levels and reducing hemolymph hyperkalemia.

This study investigates the impact of dermestid infestations on cricket growth and yield, finding reduced mass but not size, and delayed growth, but not enough to explain dramatic yield loss reports.

This study shows that glial voltage-gated K+ channels, particularly those encoded by sei, are critical for modulating cold-induced spreading depolarization and stress tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster CNS.

This study examines how mountain pine beetle larvae maintain ion balance during cold exposure and finds that ionoregulatory collapse limits their cold tolerance.