supported by research grants from Regionalt Forskningsfond (RFF) Trondelag (In Feed;Project number: 309859),where Nord University is the project leading institution,and Gullimunn AS and Mære Landbruksskole are project partners;supported by the CEER project (Project number: 2021/10345) funded by the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (HK-dir) under the Norwegian Partnership Program for Global Academic Cooperation (NORPART ) with support from the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research (MER)。
Yellow mealworm larvae(YML;Tenebrio molitor) are considered as a valuable insect species for animal feed due to their high nutritional values and ability to grow under different substrates and rearing conditions. Adva...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U1604115);Henan Provincial Key Scientific and Technological R&D Project(No.182102110111)。
In order to elucidate the ability of stored product insects to resist high temperature at varying temperature conditions,the influence of different heating rates on the mortality of all life stages of Tribolium castan...
supported by National Natural Science Fund Project (No.31601890);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Henan Provincial Colleges and Universities in Henan University of Technology (No.2016XTCX01)
Insect symbionts Wolbachia used for pest population control has focused on vector pest species and agricultural insects while rare reports in Chinese stored-product insect samples.In this paper,we surveyed the prevale...
Acknowledgments The authors thank Richard Beeman (USDA) for generously sending us the beetles used to start our lab stocks, and Wolf Blanckenhorn for kindly providing a copy of an Excel spreadsheet designed for calculation of RMA and MA slopes. The authors further thank NERC (Standard research grant to MJGG, BCE and OYM), Swiss National Science Foundation (postdoctoral fellowships and Ambizione grants to OYM), the University of East Anglia and ETH Zurich for support, and the anonymous reviewers for comments on the manuscript.
Rensch's rule proposes a universal allometric scaling phenomenon across species where sexual size dimorphism (SSD) has evolved: in taxa with male-biased dimorphism, degree of SSD should increase with overall body ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC Grant No.31370649)
Ulomoides dermestoides (Chevrolat) (Coleop- tera: Tenebrionidae) is one of the most notorious pests in northeastern China. We examined microtrichia on the thorax, elytra and abdomen of U. dermestoides using scann...
Supported by Key Project of Sichuan Provincial Department of Education(07ZA122)
In this paper, the distribution and taxonomy of the subtribe Lagriina in different provinces and regions of China was summarized. According to related data, different species of the subtribe Lagriina mainly distribute...
Ethanolic extracts of five plant material from Eucalyptus gluaca, Melia azadrach, Mentha arvensis, Olea europaea leaves and periearp of Punica granatum were investigated for insecticidal activity against the confused ...
Five concentrations effects of nine herb powders against the confused flour beetle T. confusum have been studied under controlled conditions. The insecticidal effects of using powders on the egg, larval, pupal and adu...
Recent trend for the control of insect pests has been towards the use of substances of plant origin. Reductionin fertility was determined in red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst.) by Nerium indicum Millleav...