funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs(further:The Ministry)through a Public-Private Partnership project("Controlling the safety of insects for food and feed")of the Topsector AgriFood(LWV19099).
Black soldier fly larvae(Hermetia illucens)receive growing interest as a potential alternative animal feed source.These insects may be exposed to insecticide residues in the rearing substrate.This study aimed to inves...
Insect proteins have been proposed for human and animal food production.Safeguarding the health status of insects in mass rearing allows to obtain high-quality products and to avoid severe economic losses due to entom...
Trichogramma brassicae(Bezdenko)is an important biological control agent that has been used widely against many lepidopteran pests.Commonly,colonies of Trichogramma are mass reared on factitious hosts such as Sitotrog...
The predatory bug,Orius majusculus(Reuter),is an important predator of thrips commercially produced for augmentative releases using the eggs of the Mediterranea n flour moth Ephestia kuehniella(Zeller).In this study,w...
the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research(NWO-VIDI grant number 016.161.321)to WCEPV;by CONICYT Becas Chile(scholarship number 72190288)to FPL for Doctoral studies at Radboud University Nijmegen.
There is a growing interest in the physiology underpinning heat tolerance of ectotherms and their responses to the ongoing rise in temperature.However,there is no consensus about the underlying physiological mechanism...
Associative learning is well documented in Hymenopteran parasitoids, where it is thought to be an adaptive mechanism for increasing successful host location in complex environments. Based on this learning capacity, it...
The lady beetle Coleomegilla maculata De Geer is an omnivorous predator that could help suppress aphid and spider mite populations on plants in greenhouses, plantscapes or interiorscapes. We are assessing the nutritio...