This review emphasizes the potential and use of microbes in sustainable insect pest
management. We first review the diverse insect traits shaped by insect-microbe associations …

Simple Summary The importance of insect farming is increasing in the livestock market by
evolving into a form of intensive production that is often characterized by a high density of …

Plastics are inexpensive and widely used organic polymers, but their high durability hinders
biodegradation. Polystyrene, including extruded polystyrene (also known as styrofoam), is …

As aposymbiotic and gnotobiotic hosts are important for the study of the relationship
between gut bacteria and their hosts, the feasibility of flour disc to deliver antibiotics and …

Safety assessment of probiotics is difficult but essential. In this work, the Mexican fruit fly,
Anastrepha ludens (Loew)(Diptera: Tephritidae), was used as in vivo model to assess the …

We studied the microbiota of a highly polyphagous insect, Anastrepha ludens (Diptera:
Tephritidae), develo** in six of its hosts, including two ancestral (Casimiroa edulis and C …

Laboratory adaptation process used in sterile insect technique (SIT) programs can exert a
significant impact on the insect-gut microbiome relationship, which may negatively impact …

Abstract Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt), the Queensland fruit fly (Qfly), is a highly polyphagous
tephritid fly that is widespread in Eastern Australia. Qfly physiology is closely linked with its …

Background Bactrocera dorsalis is a destructive polyphagous and highly invasive insect
pest of tropical and subtropical species of fruit and vegetable crops. The sterile insect …

The microbiota influences hosts' health and fitness. However, the extent to which the
microbiota affects host'foraging decisions and related life history traits remains to be fully …