A5010230846- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Plant and animal studies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Crustacean biology and ecology
Best Biotech
2021-2023
KU Leuven
2016-2019
Joint Research Center
2018
In this study, the microbiota during industrial rearing, processing, and storage of edible tropical house cricket, Gryllodessigillatus, was investigated. To end, we analyzed samples from cricket feed, obtained before feeding as well cages, crickets after harvest, processing into frozen, oven-dried, smoked oven-dried (smoked/dried) end products. Although feed contained lower microbial numbers than crickets, both were dominated by same species-level operational taxonomic units, determined...
Abstract Thermoregulation, that is, the active control of temperature, is key to ensure proper brood development in both wild and captive bumblebee nests. In this study, thermoregulation dynamics were assessed relative colony age ambient temperature using commercially reared Bombus terrestris L. (Hymenoptera, Apidae, ) colonies. We observed a positive relationship between nest temperatures response temperature. Thermoregulation investment (by either brooding or fanning) was lowest at surface...
Abstract Bee declines are an increasingly recognised problem globally. Nutritional stress due to agricultural intensification is one of the drivers bee declines. Therefore, understanding nutritional requirements bees crucial mitigate effects food scarcity on populations. Laboratory studies evaluating bumble often use microcolonies as a model system for queenright colonies. Microcolonies consist workers, whereby worker will lay male‐destined unfertilized eggs. Consequently, exclusively...
Many zooplankton species produce dormant stages to bridge episodes that are unfavorable for juveniles and adults. Although a variety of methods has been used study the morphology internal structure these propagules, surprisingly little is known about links between propagule traits life history characteristics such as dormancy, hatching behavior fitness emerging larvae. A major constraint most available lethal embryo processing can generate visual artefacts. Here, we investigate potential...
Juvenile hormone (JH) regulates developmental and physiological processes in insects. In bumblebees, the acts as a gonadotropin that mediates ovary development, but exact pathways involved activation egg laying are not well understood. this study, we aimed to elucidate role of JH development bumblebees. Hibernated non-hibernated queens newly hatched workers commercial Bombus terrestris impatiens were subjected topical application different doses methoprene, synthetic analogue. both bumblebee...