Miech, Phalla and Berggren, Åsa and Lindberg, Jan Erik and Chhay, Ty and Khieu, Borin and Jansson, Anna
(2016).
Growth and survival of reared Cambodian field crickets (Teleogryllus testaceus) fed weeds, agricultural and food industry by-products.
Journal of insects as food and feed. 2
:4
, 285-292
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/JIFF2016.0028
Abstract
This study evaluated survival and growth of Cambodian field crickets (Teleogryllus testaceus) during captivity when fed a set of local weed species, agricultural and food industry by-products. Wild individuals were caught at two locations in Cambodia, kept in pens and fed commercial chicken feed until the second generation off-spring hatched. First larval stage nymphs from this generation were collected and used in a 70-day feeding trial with one control treatment (chicken feed) and 12 experimental treatments (rice bran, cassava plant tops, water spinach, spent grain, residue from mungbean sprout production, and Alternanthera sessilis, Amaranthus spinosus, Commelina benghalensis, Cleome rutidosperma, Cleome viscosa, Boerhavia diffusa and Synedrela nodiflora). The crickets were kept in plastic cages and feed intake, weight and survival of crickets were recorded weekly. Overall survival did not differ between chicken feed and the experimental treatments with the exception of crickets fed B. diffusa, which had lower survival. From day 35 to day 49, survival on A. sessilis was also lower (P<0.05) than on chicken feed. There was no difference in weight between crickets fed chicken feed, cassava tops and C. rutidosperma. However, crickets fed A. sessilis, A. spinosus and B. diffusa weighed less than those fed chicken feed already at day 21. The feed conversion rate ranged from 1.6 to 3.9 and was ≤1.9 in crickets fed chicken feed, cassava plant tops and C. rutidosperma. Thus this study shows that it is possible, using simple means, to rear Cambodian field crickets. Cassava plant tops and C. rutidosperma both have great potential as cricket feed and the other weeds, with the exception of A. sessilis, A. spinosus and B. diffusa, agricultural and food industry by-products tested, also showed potential.
Authors/Creators: | Miech, Phalla and Berggren, Åsa and Lindberg, Jan Erik and Chhay, Ty and Khieu, Borin and Jansson, Anna | ||||
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Title: | Growth and survival of reared Cambodian field crickets (Teleogryllus testaceus) fed weeds, agricultural and food industry by-products | ||||
Series Name/Journal: | Journal of insects as food and feed | ||||
Year of publishing : | 2016 | ||||
Volume: | 2 | ||||
Number: | 4 | ||||
Page range: | 285-292 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 8 | ||||
Publisher: | Wageningen Academic Publishers | ||||
ISSN: | 2352-4588 | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Publication Type: | Journal article | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||
Version: | Published version | ||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 | ||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 106 Biological Sciences (Medical to be 3 and Agricultural to be 4) > Zoology (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 402 Animal and Dairy Science > Animal and Dairy Science. | ||||
Agrovoc terms: | entomophagy, feed conversion efficiency | ||||
Keywords: | entomophagy, cassava, Cleome rutidosperma, Teleogryllus testaceus, crickets, feed conversion, weight | ||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4202 | ||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4202 | ||||
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ID Code: | 14367 | ||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap VH - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science | ||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Ecology (S) > Dept. of Ecology (VH) > Dept. of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry (VH) > Dept. of Animal Nutrition and Management | ||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||
Deposited On: | 01 Jun 2017 05:35 | ||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 27 Jun 2020 15:53 |
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