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Table 4 Effects of diet and sex on the fly live weight, fly weight reduction and exuvia weight

From: Isoenergetic-practical and semi-purified diets for protein requirement determination in Hermetia illucens larvae: consequences on life history traits

Parameters

Diet (D)

Sex (S)

SEM

P-value

CP10

CP14

CP16

CP19

F

M

D

S

D

S

FLW

0.126

0.139

0.134

0.124

0.140

0.121

0.010

0.007

0.647

0.076

WR

48.87

48.16

49.27

50.24

47.34

48.86

3.031

1.246

0.155

0.068

EW

0.023

0.023

0.024

0.024

0.025

0.022

0.001

0.001

0.303

0.001

  1. Legend: CP10 10% CP diet, CP14 14% CP diet, CP16 16% CP diet, CP19 19% CP diet, GA Gainesville diet, FLW fly live weight, WR fly weight reduction, EW exuvia weight, SEM standard error of the mean