Black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae (BSFL) production will likely increase to meet the growing demand for sustainable protein and lipids. A by-product is “frass,” which a mixture of mostly larval excrement but also chitin. This mineral-richby-product could be valuable aquaponic supplement, information limited. The aim this study was twofold determine if BSFL frass additions enhance pro...

Introducing a source for a bi-local composite operator, we calculate its effective potential in the renormalization group of Standard Model with no involvement of technicolor. The potential indicates the breaking of electroweak symmetry below a scale M due to a nonzero vacuum expectation value of neutral component for the SU(2)-doublet operator at a scale Λ, fixed by the measured masses of gaug...

We present analytic expressions for the top and bottom Yukawa couplings in the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard model when both couplings h t,0 , h b,0 are large at the unification scale. For sufficiently large h t,0 , h b,0 , i.e. within ∼ (20 − 25)% close to their fixed point values, using as input the central value of the bottom mass m b (m b) = 4.25GeV , we find that the top m...

Introducing a source for a bi-local composite operator, we calculate its effective potential in the renormalization group of Standard Model with no involvement of technicolor. The potential indicates the breaking of electroweak symmetry below a scale M due to a nonzero vacuum expectation value of neutral component for the SU(2)-doublet operator at a scale Λ, fixed by the measured masses of gaug...

Introducing a source for a bi-local composite operator, we calculate its effective potential in the renormalization group of Standard Model with no involvement of technicolor. The potential indicates the breaking of electroweak symmetry below a scale M due to a nonzero vacuum expectation value of neutral component for the SU(2)-doublet operator at a scale Λ, fixed by the measured masses of gaug...

AIMS The lesser mealworm, Alphitobius diaperinus is an important poultry pest prevalent during production that is capable of vectoring pathogens. This study was undertaken to determine the gut transit time of Salmonella for biosecurity risk analysis of pathogen dispersal into the environment. METHODS Adult and larval A. diaperinus were exposed to two concentrations of a fluorescently labeled ...

The parasitoid Prorops nasutaWaterston (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) is a wasp of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). In this study, the attractiveness of different volatiles to P. nasuta was studied in the laboratory using a Y-tube olfactometer. Female wasps were attracted to coffee berry borer-infested coffee berries but not to uninfested or artiÞcia...

The ambrosia beetle, Platypus koryoensis (Murayama), vectors the Korean oak wilt (KOW) pathogen, Raffaelea quercus-mongolicae K.H. Kim, Y.J. Choi, & H.D. Shin, in Korea, which is highly lethal to Mongolian oak, Quercus mongolica Fisch., and is considered a major threat to forest ecosystem health. We characterized the attack pattern of P. koryoensis along the lower trunk of 240 Mongolian oaks i...