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Self-selection of an optimum diet from a mixture of wheat fractions by the larvae of Tribolium confusum☆
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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.About:
This article is published in Journal of Insect Physiology.The article was published on 1973-02-01. It has received 48 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Endosperm & Bran.read more
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A multi-level analysis of feeding behaviour: the geometry of nutritional decisions
TL;DR: A new framework which integrates functional, mechanistic, ontogenetic and comparative aspects of nutrition is presented and tested in experiments with insects, showing how comparative analyses of a range of species can be used to investigate the influence of non-nutritional, ecological factors on the location of the targets.
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Spider feeding behaviour optimises dietary essential amino acid composition
TL;DR: It is shown that free-living wolf spiders will tend to prey on three species in proportions which optimise the proportions of the essential amino acids they provide in the diet.
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Selectivity and Growth of the Generalist Herbivore Dolabella Auricularia Feeding Upon Complementary Resources
TL;DR: The results suggest that Dolabella actively maintains a mixed diet because it is nutritionally superior to any single diet, and consumer foraging will tend to destabilize the resource community, because rarer resources will be disproportionately consumed.
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Self-Selection of an Optimal Nutrient Mix from Defined Diets by Larvae of the Corn Earworm, Heliothis zea (Boddie)
TL;DR: It is proposed that in nature most insects have both the opportunity and the capability to self-select a favorable nutrient mix and Herbivorous insects, for example, could self- select from an array of different plant species or from the various structures and tissues of a plant.
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The Consumption and Utilization of Food by Insects
TL;DR: It seems apparent that adaptive nutritional differences must be sought on a quantitative level and that a meaningful comparative nutrition of insects will not emerge until quantitative studies are emphasized.
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The consumption, digestion, and utilization of food plants by a polyphagous insect, Prodenia eridania (Cramer)
C.F. Soo Hoo,Gottfried Fraenkel +1 more
TL;DR: The efficiency by which digested food can be converted into body material is 50 per cent and higher in Prodenia and several other lepidopterous larvae, on a dry weight basis than in the most efficient food converters among higher animals, viz. the chick or pig.
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Minimal nutritional requirements of the german roach, blattella germanica l.*
TL;DR: The xenict work reported in this paper was intended to be a preliminary to subsequent axenic researches, and it was hoped that all of the xenic nutritional requirements of the German roach could be established easily.