Relative Humidity Effects on the Life History of Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

By L. Holmes, S. VanLaerhoven, J. Tomberlin. 2012

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ABSTRACT Black soldier flies, Hermetia illucens (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) are of particular interest for their application in waste management such as reducing manure accumulations in confined feeding operations. Determining black soldier fly development time as a result of climatic variations will allow for optimizing their utilization as a waste management agent at landfill sites and confined animal feeding operations. To implement a black soldier fly waste management program in Canada, where seasonal variability does not support H. illucens development on a year round basis, determining maximum and minimum abiotic thresholds to sustain larval development is important. In Canadian winters, maintaining greenhouse temperatures necessary for black soldier fly development results in low relative humidity that could impact their development. The objective of this study was to determine relative humidity thresholds on egg eclosion and adult emergence. Egg eclosion success was measured at 25, 40, 50, 60, and 70% relative humidities and adult emergence success was measured at 25, 40, and 70% RH. Egg eclosion and adult emergence success increased with increasing relative humidities, while development time decreased with rising relative humidities.

Subfields: Genetics, Insect Science, Social Psychology

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In Genetics

1. J. V. van Loon
2. M. Dicke
3. K. Barragán-Fonseca
4. D. Oonincx
5. A. van Huis

In Insect Science

1. J. V. van Loon
2. M. Dicke
3. K. Barragán-Fonseca
4. D. Oonincx
5. A. van Huis
6. Paola Gobbi
7. S. Rojo
8. Jibin Zhang

In Social Psychology

1. J. V. van Loon
2. M. Dicke
3. K. Barragán-Fonseca
4. D. Oonincx
5. A. van Huis
6. Jibin Zhang
7. G. Bosch
8. H. Jordan

Citations in the corpus

• Conversion of organic wastes into fly larval biomass: bottlenecks and challenges (2015, background): “Holmes et al. (2012) proved that relative humidity had significant effects on rearing success of BSF.”
• Bioconversion of organic wastes into biodiesel and animal feed via insect farming (2016, background): “The pupation stage usually lasts for two weeks under ideal environmental conditions [12,30,31].”
• Nutritional value of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens L.) and its suitability as animal feed – a review (2017, background): “25 60-70 99 Gobbi, 2012; Holmes et al., 2012; Tomberlin and Sheppard, 2002 Substrate moisture (”
• Standardisation of quantitative resource conversion studies with black soldier fly larvae (2020, background): “The rearing container with the reference diet and the egg clutches on top should then be placed in a climate controlled location with a temperature of 30 °C (Tomberlin et al. , 2009) and a relative humidity of 70% (Holmes et al. , 2012).”
• Larvae Mediated Valorization of Industrial, Agriculture and Food Wastes: Biorefinery Concept through Bioconversion, Processes, Procedures, and Products (2020, background): “[138] demonstrated that egg eclosion and adult emergence success increases with increasing relative humidity.”