Fats provide the majority of the energy necessary for sustaining life. Immature stages of
holometabolous insects have high quantities of polyunsaturated fat. The energy contents of …

Despite high diversity in species as well as metamorphological life-stages, edible insects
are essentially an animal-source food contributing high quality protein and fat when viewed …

The increase of waste, due to the rise of the world population, renders the use of the black
soldier fly (BSF; Hermetia illucens) as agri-food leftover biotransformer very attractive …

In insect parasitoids, fatty acid synthases (FASs) have received less attention and their roles
associated with lipogenesis loss are far from clear. Meteorus pulchricornis is a solitary …

The flies of the Sarcophagidae, widespread throughout the temperate zone, are of great
significance in Medicine, Veterinary science, Forensics and Entomotoxicology. Lipids are …

During the last five years the scientific knowledge on insects as food and feed has been
growing exponentially. At the same time, the industrial sector is increasingly engaged in …

In a near future there is a need to guaranty food security for approximately more than one
billion people worldwide. Beyond the population increase other factors contribute to food …

Investigation into the proximate characteristics of an edible caterpillar of a lepidopteran,
Bunaea alcinoe was carried out using standard methods. Determination of amino acid …

A nutrient associated with animal-derived phospholipids has previously been found
essential for newly-emerged adults of the mosquito Culex pipiens to fly and survive more …