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Choice of food by larvae of the fly, Agria affinis, related to dietary proportions of nutrients
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Analysis showed that the amino acid level and the glucose level determined the effects on growth and development and on the choice of food.Citations
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Insect-Plant Interactions: Nutrition and Metabolism
Stanley D. Beck,John C. Reese +1 more
TL;DR: From both practical and theoretical viewpoints, the most important questions pertain to the identity of factors determining host specificity among the insects and susceptibility to insect depredation among the plants.
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Periphyton production and grazing by chironomids in Alderfen Broad, Norfolk
C. F. Mason,R.J. Bryant +1 more
TL;DR: The periphyton is a richer source of essential amino acids than the mud, so that a movement from mud to reedstems in spring may increase the rates of growth and metamorphosis of the larvae.
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CHAPTER 22 – Nutrition of Entomophagous Insects and Other Arthropods
S.N. Thompson,K.S. Hagen +1 more
TL;DR: The larval stages that consume food of high nutritional content are relatively inactive within the host and have a limited food supply, both of which may contribute to the selection for efficient food utilization as mentioned in this paper.
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Self-selection of an optimum diet from a mixture of wheat fractions by the larvae of Tribolium confusum☆
TL;DR: The mixed diet supported growth better than any one of the pure fractions or any wheat diet previously tested by us and was superior to germ, the best of thepure fractions, because it was more digestible and the digested portion was more efficiently utilized for growth.
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Host alternation in aphis fabae scop. i. feeding preferences and fecundity in relation to the age and kind of leaves
J. S. Kennedy,C. O. Booth +1 more
TL;DR: The feeding preferences and comparative fecundity of laboratory-bred, alienicolae alatae of Aphis fabae were investigated in small leaf cages on spindle and sugar beet leaves, representing a winter and a summer host respectively, both in pots in the greenhouse and while growing naturally outdoors, forming the basis of a dual discrimination theory of host selection.
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Feeding Behaviour and Nutrition in Grasshoppers and Locusts
TL;DR: This chapter relates feeding behavior and nutrition to the other aspects of insect functioning that are sufficiently well surveyed and understood to provide the possibility of integration.
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Effects of different proportions of nutrients on insects
TL;DR: Investigation of digestion and nutrient composition of foodstuffs found that, provided all essential nutrients are present, the proportions of essential nutrients in a foodstuff contribute more to nutritional quality than do the absolute amounts of nutrients.