Table 1.
Inclusion percentage of feed ingredients to experimental diets based on weight.
Table 2.
Dry matter (DM) percentage, crude protein (CP), phosphorus, and total fatty acid (TFA) percentages on a DM basis, and fatty acid composition (as % of total fatty acids*) of diets provided to Argentinean cockroach, black soldier fly, yellow mealworm, and house cricket (results based on single analysis).
Table 3.
Survival rate (%), development time (days), Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR), Dry matter conversion of ingested food (ECI;%), and nitrogen efficiency (N-ECI; %), of Argentinean cockroach, black soldier fly, yellow mealworm without and with carrot, and house cricket on different diets (Mean ± SD).
Different superscripts in a column, per species, denote significant differences (Kruskal Wallis followed by Scheffé’s post-hoc test; P < 0.05).
Table 4.
Dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP; %DM), phosphorus (P; g/kg DM) content, and total fatty acids (TFA, %DM), of Argentinean cockroach, black soldier fly, yellow mealworm without and with carrot, and house cricket on different diets (Mean ± SD).
Different superscripts in a column, per species, denote significant differences (Kruskal Wallis followed by Scheffé’s post-hoc test; P < 0.05).
Table 5.
Comparative data on crude protein (CP; %DM), fat (%DM), and phosphorus content (P; %DM), and the main fatty acids (as a % of total fatty acids) for black soldier fly larvae, yellow mealworms and house crickets.
Fig 1.
Total fatty acid and crude protein content as a percentage of dry matter of Argentinean cockroaches (A), Black soldier flies (B), Yellow mealworms without carrot (C), Yellow mealworms with carrot (D) and House crickets (E) reared on experimental (HPHF = high protein, high fat; HPLF = high protein, low fat; LPHF = low protein, high fat; LPLF = low protein, low fat), or control diets.
Table 6.
Fatty acid composition (% of total fatty acids*) of Argentinean cockroach, black soldier fly, yellow mealworm without and with carrot, and house cricket, on different diets (Mean ± SD; n = 3).
Different superscripts in a column, per species, denote significant differences (Kruskal Wallis followed by Scheffé’s post-hoc test; P < 0.05).
Fig 2.
Average fatty acid composition of Argentinean cockroach, Black soldier fly, Yellow mealworm and House cricket reared on four experimental diets and their respective control diets.
Table 7.
Ratios between n6 and n3 fatty acids in experimental and control diets provided to Argentinean cockroach, black soldier fly, yellow mealworm, and house cricket.