Buscar
Mostrando ítems 1-10 de 3053
Perception of cat owners on the use of insects as feed ingredients for cats
(Koninklijke Brill NV, 2023)
Currently, insects represent a sustainable alternative to animal-based ingredients for pet food, but there is little
information on the willingness of cat owners to incorporate insects into their pet diets. The objective ...
Biodegradação de resíduos orgânicos utilizando indivíduos da espécie Nauphoeta cinerea (Oliver, 1789)
(Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáCampo MouraoBrasilDepartamento Acadêmico de AmbientalEngenharia AmbientalUTFPR, 2021-08-16)
Livestock production and fish farming has increasingly needed new technologies, due to the high cost and environmental impacts of raw materials, such as soybeans and corn for feed production. With that in mind, this work ...
A comparative analysis of host feeding and life-history traits in parasitoid wasps
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2016-05)
Feeding in insect parasitoids can have significant implications from behavioral and evolutionary ecology standpoints. Females of many species not only search for hosts to lay their eggs on, but also may use them as a food ...
Salt controls feeding decisions in a blood-sucking insect
(Elsevier, 2017-04)
Salts are necessary for maintaining homeostatic conditions within the body of all living organisms. Like with all essential nutrients, deficient or excessive ingestion of salts can result in adverse health effects. The ...
Forest insects. A guide to insects feeding on trees in Britain
(Forestry Commission, 2018)
The influence of previous experience and starvation on aphid feeding behavior
(2000)
It was hypothesized that (1) previous experience of aphids on a host plant leads to differences in their feeding behavior relative to aphids without previous experience on it and that (2) a change in the physiological state ...
Food recognition in hematophagous insects
(Elsevier Inc, 2019-08)
Hematophagous insects use heat, odors, visual cues and humidity emitted by vertebrate hosts to find them in space and time. Once they reach a host, they integrate multimodal information from its skin, and decide whether ...
Female beetles facilitate leaf feeding for males on toxic plants
(Ecological Entomology, 2018)