Insects as Cat Toys

Protein quality of insects as potential ingredients for dog and cat foods*

Insects have been proposed as a high-quality, efficient and sustainable dietary protein source. The present study evaluated the protein quality of a selection of insect species. Insect substrates were housefly pupae, adult house cricket, yellow mealworm larvae, lesser mealworm larvae, Morio worm larvae, black soldier fly larvae and pupae, six spot roach, death's head cockroach and Argentinean c...

Destructible toys as enrichment for captive chimpanzees.

The use of destructible objects or toys as enrichment for nonhuman primates has had promising results in terms of increased use and positive behavioral effect. The purpose of this project was to determine the use and durability of a number of inexpensive, destructible toys provided one at a time or several at once. Nine singly caged chimpanzees were provided with 8 different toys made of plasti...

Insects as Livestock Feed

Biorefinery: Producing biologically-based products and energy from biomass Oviposi�on: The laying of eggs Pathogens: A bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease Prions: An infec�ous, transmissible protein thought to be the cause of TSE Substrate: The material on or from which an organism lives, grows, or obtains its nourishment Valorisa�on: Recovering of value from dispose...

Toxic Toys

principal investigator for the team. His collaborators were Jean-Pierre Kinet, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School who first cloned the gene for the IgE receptor in 1986, and Scott Garman, a postdoctoral fellow in the Northwestern Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology. About 50 million people in the United States have some form of allergy. Many allergies...

Insects as Educational Tools: An Online Course Teaching the Use of Insects as Instructional Tools