Insect Utilization and Effects

Dietary Analysis of Vespula shidai in Reared and Wild Nests

This study compares the dietary habits of reared and wild Vespula shidai nests, finding wild nests consume more vertebrate species and highlight the impact of human feeding on foraging preferences.

Controlled and polygynous mating in the black soldier fly: advancing breeding programs utilizing quantitative genetic designs

This study demonstrates controlled mating in black soldier flies, enabling the use of quantitative genetic designs for selective breeding programs.

Boosting Bug Farms: A Meta-Analysis on Probiotic Effects in Insect Rearing

This paper conducts a meta-analysis of probiotic effects on insect rearing, finding increased growth rates but no significant impact on microbiome diversity.

Growth, development, and life history of a mass-reared edible insect, Gryllodes sigillatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)

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

Establishment & Characterization of a Non-Adherent Insect Cell Line for Cultivated Meat

This paper establishes and characterizes a non-adherent insect cell line for cultivated meat production, showing high cell density and metabolic profiles.

Brewery Waste as a Sustainable Protein Source for the Banded Cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus)

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.

Larger diet particle sizes cause crickets to grow faster with no effect on final body size

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

Applying nutritional ecology to optimize diets of crickets raised for food and feed

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

Sex-specific perching: Monitoring of artificial plants reveals dynamic female-biased perching behavior in the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

The paper investigates sex-specific perching behavior in black soldier flies, finding females perch more frequently than males, especially in the morning and early adulthood.

Effects of diet particle size on growth performance of the edible cricket, Teleogryllus occipitalis (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)

This study examines how diet particle size affects growth performance in edible crickets, finding that granular feed promotes better growth than powdered feed.

Farmed crickets raised with dermestids suffer from reduced and delayed growth, but not enough to explain reports of dramatic yield loss

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.

Rapid generation and screening of transgenic black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens)

This study develops a rapid method for generating and screening transgenic black soldier flies using piggyBac mRNA and donor plasmids, achieving stable transgenic lines with 30-33% transformation efficiency.

Metabolic modeling of Hermetia illucens larvae resource allocation for high-value fatty acid production

This study uses metabolic modeling to analyze resource allocation in Hermetia illucens larvae and predict growth and fatty acid production under different dietary conditions.

Genome and Genetic Engineering of the House Cricket (Acheta domesticus) Applications for Sustainable Agriculture

The paper presents the first high-quality genome assembly of the house cricket and demonstrates genetic engineering techniques for improving its agricultural and industrial applications.